THE JACKDAW OF RHEIMS. With illlustrations by Charles Folkard
Edition: First US issue
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1914. Purple bevel edge decorated cloth, front cover stamped in gilt and green. 12 colour plates tipped to dark grey card with captioned tissue guards, numerous b&w drawings in text, title page lettered in black and orange, UK printed. Sunning to bevel edges, and spine, with a few spots of fading to spine and covers, as usual with this most fade-prone of colours; soft corner crease to first three leaves, creases to lower inner corner of a number of the plates, else a VG clean and unworn copy, no owner names, of this appealing edition by a noted illustrator. 1.5 kg parcel; Folio