The Allies' Fairy Book with an introduction by Edmund Gosse, London: William Heinemann, [1916], 4°, FIRST TRADE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, WITH PICTORIAL ENDPAPERS, PRESENTATION COPY FROM ARTHUR RACKHAM TO MARION BALLANTYNE, 12 coloured plates after Arthur Rackham, illustrations (occasional light spotting and staining), original blue pictorial cloth gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, spine slightly faded). [Latimore & Haskell p. 45; Riall p. 128]

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The Allies' Fairy Book with an introduction by Edmund Gosse, London: William Heinemann, [1916], 4°, FIRST TRADE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, WITH PICTORIAL ENDPAPERS, PRESENTATION COPY FROM ARTHUR RACKHAM TO MARION BALLANTYNE, 12 coloured plates after Arthur Rackham, illustrations (occasional light spotting and staining), original blue pictorial cloth gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, spine slightly faded). [Latimore & Haskell p. 45; Riall p. 128]

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The half title bears the inscription "Marion Ballantyne from Arthur Rackham, Sept. 1919" and incorporates a pen and ink sketch by Rackham of a butterfly-winged elf.

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