HOWES, EDITH Maoriland Fairy Tales , London/Melbourne/Toronto: Ward, Lock & Co, 1913.Hard Back. Good/No Dustwrapper. 20 x 15 Cm Approx Blue cloth boards with gilt title to front and aspine. Mounted paper illustration to front board (same illust as frontispiece 'Marama shows Ina the Moon-Land'). 237pp plus 16pp publisher's list. 4 colour plates and b&w illustrations all present as listed. Elegant ink inscription ' in remembrance of happy years in the Girls' High School, Christchurch, Maoriland' to 1st free endpaper is dated 1915. Tissue guard to frontispiece. One closed tear to b&w illustration page; very light scattered foxing to one or two pages; boards externally bumped at corners and worn at ends of spine. A good tight copy. (Book ref. 30883 ) £ 20.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Ripping Yarns , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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