Illus by T Pym (2 results)
Published by 909115408, NY Alfred Knopf, 2002, 3rd printing. ISBN 10 1909115401ISBN 13
- Hardcover
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Fine: clean, straight unmarked; (tip of silk thread is Hardcover in blue cloth, color plate, 8.3 in., 92 pages, with violet silk thread/pagemarker. . . With about 30 full-page color paintings, gentle, by Pym. With about 30 full-page color paintings, gentle, by Pym (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co:[1881], First edition,, 1881
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United KingdomGeoffrey Jackson
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 90.00
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. small square 8vo, ii, 40pp, 4 full-page & 15 colour printed illus. to text by T. Pym (all with paper guards), errata leaf tipped-in at rear, leaf design endpapers, orig. cloth backed colour printed pictorial paper boards, with orig. leather corners, slightly rubbed and marked on some… extremities. A VG clean copy of the author's scarce first book. Most charming. The pictures are very pretty and the children represented in them like real children as they are to be seen in nurseries. The excellent stories of L.C. display a delicate fancy, and will be read with pleasure, for their literary merit, by grown people as well as children. - The Times, 1883. The English children's writer, novelist, and dramatist Lucy Lane Clfford better known as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, was an English novelist and journalist, and the wife of the philosopher William Kingdon Clifford, whom she met whilst studying art in London. The Clifford's home became a gathering place for distinguished literary and scientific persons of the day, including Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, John Tynall, Thomas Huxley, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, James Russell Lowell, George Eliot, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Violet Hunt and Leslie Stephen.
