Walter de la Mare
Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems
Constable & Co. Ltd.
1922
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First edition of the critically acclaimed Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems that was preceded by a deluxe limited edition in the same year.
- Walter de la Mare (English).
- Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop (English).
- London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1922.
- 193 pages with a list of poems and illustrations.
- Includes 3 full-page color and 60 black-and-white illustrations by Lathrop who in 1939 was the very first Caldecott Medal winner for illustration.
- Includes original decorative panel from the original front cover that is bound in at the end of the book and a signed binding ticket of John Fellowes inside back cover.
- Bound in contemporary three-quarter morocco leather with marbled boards, elaborate decorations, titling to the spine with raised hubs and top edges gilt.
- Housed in a custom-made paper-covered slipcase.
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Very GoodInternally clean with no foxing, marks, or signs of wear or use.
Slipcase with some minor soiling.
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