THE ALLIES' FAIRY BOOK 1916 ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

[GOSSE, Edmund (introduction); RACKHAM, Arthur (ills.)]. The Allies' Fairy Book. London: William Heinemann, n.d. [1916].

First edition. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (21cm x 15cm x 2.5cm); pp. xxii, 122. English text with an introduction by Edmund Gosse. Bound in publisher's original decorative cloth; pictorial endpapers; half-title; with 12 colour plates by Arthur Rackham, each with a captioned tissue-guard, and many b&w drawings in the text. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, minor bumping to spine ends, covers and contents largely clean, light browning to endpapers, without a dust jacket.

Notes: First edition. Classic tales include: English tale, Jack the Giant Killer; Scotch tale, The Battle of the Birds; Welsh tale, Lludd and Llevelys; Irish tale, Guleesh; French tale, The Sleeping Beauty; Italian tale, Cesarino and the Dragon; Portuguese tale, What Came of Picking Flowers; Japanese tales, The Adventures of the Little Peachling, The Fox's Wedding, and, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow; Russian tale, Frost; a Serbian tale, The Golden Apple-Tree and the Nine Peahens; and finally, The Last Adventure of Thyl Ulenspiegel, a Belgian tale. Printed in Great Britain at The Complete Press, West Norwood, London.