FAIRIES

by Edith Nesbit, Pauline Sunter

$400 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, circa 1890 . First edition. First printing of this fantasy shape book, with rhymes about the many fairies of the outdoors illustrated with vivid chromolithographs. Very good plus. Item #37483 Nesbit's method of blending the realism of the natural world with bits of magic was an immense influence in the direction of 20th-century

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