Children's Books

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. Fair. Hard Cover. Blue illustrated covers with cloth spine, age-/shelfworn. Significant cornerwear, some edgewear, some wear to spine; pretty grubby overall. Light marking to fore edge. No dustjacket. Internally, front & back endpapers browned, pages lightly tanned. The odd faint mark, scuff, crease, foxing to pages, which overall are clean & bright, Good. With 17 full-page stunning b&w scissor-cut illustrations. 116 pp. Undated; probably 1930s. Foreword by Compton Mackenzie: "What I like about Plimplomplimps is the complete absence of sentimentality, to find a parallel with which we have to go back beyond Hans Andersen to the brothers Grimm." Translated from the original German by R. & E. A. Howe. . more information

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