Elizabeth peacock illus (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Contains 12 stories linked to elements of a middle-class garden: sundial, cherry tree, apple tree, crocuses, wasps, lavender, rooks. It ends with a poem celebrating the arrival of a baby brother who does away with the need for fairies as companions. The book was published in an American edition in 1918, with a different cover.Alice P Moss also published The Dream Garden, and Other stories (1904); under her married name, Alice P. Nowell Price, a book of poems, The Cardinal's Coach and other poems (1927).Sybil Barham trained at the Herkomer Art School, London, and worked as an illustrator. This is a charming example of fairy stories set in Edwardian middle-class life.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Probable first U.S. ed. (Originally publiushed by Wells Garner, Darton & Co., London, 1918). Date approximate (not dated). 8vo. x, 129 pp. Color frontis & 2 additional color plates and numerous line drawings in text and chapter headings.