Granny's Wonderful Chair (ACC Children's Classics) Hardcover - 1999

Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Gisele Rime. introduction by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated end pages, and the delightful coloured drawings and illustrations within the text have all been executed by Gisele Rime. Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound), again by Gisele Rime, with ochre and blue coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. This book was first published in the 19th century – written by the author who had been blinded by smallpox as a young child – and consequently had a vivid imagination in which she populated Princess, princesses, and other beings in a land of lush meadows, sumptuous palaces and mysterious woods. This in edition with lively illustrations by Gisele Rime, again tells the story of the girl Snowflower, her granny's magic storytelling chair and of the Palace of King Winwealth. Minor rubbing of the book corners and back strip corners. Creasing of the top dustwrapper edge with some rubbing of the dustwrapper panels. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [4], 5 - 111, [1] pages,. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Gisele Rime. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Illustrated; 19th century; Myths, Legends & Folklore. ISBN: 1851497064. ISBN/EAN: 9781851497065. Inventory No: 0127186. . 9781851497065