ASQUITH, CYNTHIA - [Designed by]:: THE FLYING CARPET

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ASQUITH, CYNTHIA - [Designed by]: : THE FLYING CARPET

LONDON.PARTRIDGE & CO,LTD.,nd.

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UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj,1st edn.[No date,but gift presentation inscrptn for Christmas, 1930] FINE.Neat,ink,Christmas gift presentation inscrptn to ffe,no dw/dj. Bright,clean,publisher's original black ink stamped,decorated red cloth bds (five children on a flying carpet,silhouetted) and black lettering with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Spine/backstrip slightly faded - as usual/normal.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/tanned,contents bright,tight and clean - virtually unfoxed - clean plain white eps,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK,Qrto HB,1st edn,9- 200pp [paginated] includes mixture of 34 stories+poems by various contributors,all illustrated by various illustrators in either b/w line illus as either head or tail pieces,and in text,plus 4 tipped-in, onlay pictorial colour illustrations by Harold Earnshaw,H.M. Brock,Mabel Lucie Attwell and Susan Pearse respectively. Unpaginated half-title,b/w line decorated title-page,tipped-in onlay pictorial colour frntis (Harold Earnshaw); contents list/table and illustrators list. Contributors include:Thomas Hardy (verse), Adelaide Phillpotts (2 stories),Herbert Asquith (3 - verses),Alfred Noyes (verse), Desmond MacCarthy (story),A.A. Milne(story extract - When We Were Vey,Very Young), David Cecil (verse),Cynthia Asquith (2 stories),Henry Newbolt (4 - verses),G.K. Chesterton (verse),Charles Whibley(story), J.M. Barrie (story),Elizabeth Lowndes (story),John Lea (2 - verses),Hugh Lofting (story - Dr Dolittle Meets a Londoner in Paris),Magaret Kennedy (verse),Clemence Dane (story),Hilaire Belloc (2 - verses), Walter de la Mare (story),Sir Walter Raleigh (verse),A. Pembury (2 - verses), Edward Marsh (verse), W.H. Davies (verse) and Denis Mackail (story). Illustrators include:Mabel Lucie Attwell, J.R.C. Bodley,L.R. Brightwell,H.M. Brock, Harold Earnshaw,Daphne Jerrold,E. Barnard Lintott,Hugh Lofting,George Morrow,Susan Pearse,T.Heath Robinson,Ernest H.Shepard, Dudley Tennant,and A.H. Watson.A charming collection and selection in exceptional condition. Please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj,1st edn.
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