Princess Mary's Gift Book
by Barrie, J. M.; Arthur Conan Doyle; Rudyard Kipling; Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression. 1914 Condition: V.G+ . Beige cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Some yellowing to pages due to age. 13 tipped-in colour plates, and frontispiece of HRH Princess Mary. Other b/w drawings throughout. 'All profits from sale are given to The Queen's Work for Women" Overall a very nice copy.
British Great War fund-raising album assembled with the approval of Buckingham Palace and directed at children. Princess Mary was the only daughter of King George V and was 17 years old when the Great War began. Her portrait was pasted-in as the frontispiece of the book. The fourteen tipped-in color plates include:'So nobody can quite explain Exactly where the rainbows end' (Arthur Rackham)'True Spartan Hearts' (Edmund Dulac)'The Ant Lion' (E.J. Detmold)'A Holiday in Bed' (W. Russell Flint)'.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lansdowne Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 310
- Title
- Princess Mary's Gift Book
- Author
- Barrie, J. M.; Arthur Conan Doyle; Rudyard Kipling; Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)
- Illustrator
- Arthur Rackham
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1914
- Pages
- 140 pages
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated; Literature; Children's Books; First Edition; collectible;