[MACDONALD, GEORGE]. Dealings with the Fairies. London: Alexander Strahan, 1867.
FIRST U.K. EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Cloth-bound; hardcover; duodecimo (14 x 11 x 2.5 cm); pp. [8], 308, [4] advertisements. English text. Handsomely bound in publisher's original decorative cloth; all page edges gilt; brown coated endpapers; half-title; twelve fine black and white illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Covers very well-preserved with slight bumping to spine ends. Interior largely clean with some light marks and trivial spotting confined to endpapers. Exquisite.
Notes: Rare first edition with 4pp. publisher's adverts at end dated "December 1866." The first of MacDonald's books intended chiefly for children, which includes the first appearance of his story "The Golden Key," as well as MacDonald's earliest published fairy tale "Cross Purposes." A wonderful copy of this scarce and fragile book.
