PRINCESS HERMINIE AND THE TAPESTRY PRINCE and other stories.
Illustrated by Barbara Macdonald. Pp. 80(last blank), 4 coloured plates, 14 full page black & white illustrations, pictorial head and tailpieces, the double title page printed in red & black; cr. 4to; printed brown paper wrappers over card, with flap folds, the upper wrapper featuring a large coloured rectangular pictorial onlay (slightly rubbed at edges), the wrappers lightly soiled and rubbed, edges lightly creased and split, with a couple tiny chips at head and foot of backstrip and a longer (5 cm.) closed tear at foot of upper joint; later endpapers, corners of a few leaves faintly creased, occasional slight soiling; Art In Australia Limited, Sydney, 1922. First edition. Muir 3725. The second of two books for children illustrated by Barbara Macdonald (1892-1969), an English painter, who came to Australia with her Australian husband after the First World War. The author, Frances Selina Jane Ivatt (1864-1937), also published four volumes of poetry. Item #145705
Price: $500.00