The Ragged King, and Other Fairy Tales. Wide World Story Books—No.4

by H. E. Marshall, Honor Appleton, illustrated

$250 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1938. Fairy Tales FIRST EDITION, first impression, the PUBLISHER'S FILE COPY. Octavo 20 x 15cm , pp.128. With four colour-illustrated plates by Appleton, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with yellow titles to spine. With the dust-jacket, priced at 2/6. Internally crisp and clean, with an ink stamp to fly-leaf reading 'File Copy | Please Return', and a printed label reading 'Original Plates | Scrapped |

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