THE FAIRY SCALES AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Gladys Smythe
Illustrated by Catherina Patricchio
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd.
in 1917
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THE FAIRY SCALES AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Gladys Smythe.
Illustrated by Catherina Patricchio.
Stock no. 1328535
1st.
1917.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
10 short stories. 10 colour plates including frontis. Cream cloth boards, green titles, large pictorial onlay to front cover shows young boy picking a rose up from the road that has been dropped by a young girl clutching a handful of roses. Green & white fairy ring to endpapers. B/w illustrations to margins. 101 pages. First story is The Golliwog's Lesson. Spine and corners bumped, a couple of small dents to cover edges. Spine is bumped and rubbed. Damp stains to edge of front cover. Tiny piece of loss to top corner tip of front free-endpaper. A couple of small margin tears to prelims. Light foxing to prelims and textblock. Some grubby fingermarks and some large foxspots to pages but generally contents clean.