Cicely Mary Barker - Flower Fairies of the Wayside
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Cicely Mary Barker - Flower Fairies of the Wayside. Poems and pictures - London and Glasgow - Blackie & Son Limited - [1948] - 1st edition - [76]pp - Hardcover with dust jacket - 11 x 14 cm.
Condition: Good - COMPLETE with the price clipped dust jacket. The bookshop added a stamp with adjusted price 2/9 net. on the flap. Jacket with with two minor restored tears. Small owner's entry.
Picture book with sweet rhymes and drawings by Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973) in the theme 'Along the way'. Illustrated with drawings of wildflowers and elves in colour and black and white. Text in English. HARDBACK FIRST EDITION. Original price on dust jacket should be 2/6 net.
¶ Laing p.63-66; 123. From 1923 onwards, picture books appeared with Flower Fairies in the lead role, drawn after real models; the children from the kindergarten of Cicely's sister Dorothy, always depicted with a flower, a twig or blossom of a fairy.
