At the Sign of the Reine Pédeauque

London, England: John Lane / the Bodley Head. Very Good-. 1922. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. Black cloth boards have gilt lettering and illustrations on both front and spine. There is some light bumping, rubbing and light fraying to the spine ends and corners of the book covers along with a light cracking to the cloth at the bottom front spine joint. The cloth has some light rubbing and several spots of ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers are fully illustrated and there are 12 full page black and white illustrations, along with head and tail pieces and other small illustrations throughout by Frank C. Papé. "Papé's first known work, for Emile Clement's Naughty Eric and Other Stories from Giant, Witch, and Fairyland, published in 1902, remains extremely rare. One copy is held by The British Library. An original pen and ink illustration from one of the stories, 'The Magic Stone', has been found in Sussex, England. "Falcon the Hunter" from The Russian Story Book (1916) Papé's next earliest illustrations are found in books for children from around 1908, including The Toils and Travels of Odysseus (1908) , a translation of The Odyssey by C. A. Pease; and Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1910). During the second decade of the 20th century, he made extensive contributions to the a number of collections of fairy, folk and other children's tales, as well as illustrating a collection of the Psalms. " (from Wikipedia) .