Flora (Classic Reprint) by Pamela Bianco

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William Heinemann, 1919 Hardcover ex-library, large 8vo. 1st ed. 43pp. Tissue protected color frontispiece + 7 additional color plates & numerous B&W illustrations. Illustrated beige boards. Corners bumped, with rubbing & fading, small piece missing at spine heel. Minimal library markings. Pages unmarked & tight.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Paris: Lucien Vogel, n.d. [1919]. First French Edition; printed in London. Unopened; an excellent copy in a very good, but very fragile dust jacket, with some chips and tears.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 42 pp. 29.5 x 23 cm. [1919]. White paper covered boards with illustration and titling printed in grey, in a brown paper dustjacket with illustration and titling in grey. Some light chipping to head and tail of spine of jacket, with some light wear to corners of front and rear panels. Some light nicking and creasing to head and tail of front and rear panels of jacket, which is protected in a mylar cover. Bumping to spine ends and corners of boards, with a 5 cm tear to head of rear joint which has been repaired. Some light to moderate soil to boards. Some uneven toning to first blank page. Moderate toning to frontispiece and title page from tissue guard, which is lightly creased. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding sound. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: William Heinemann, 1919. Near Fine, small corner bumps and small creasesat spine ends, small contemporary prior owner name in pencil front end page, in a Very Good dust jacket, old external tape mends at spine ends. The lovely drawings of a 12 year old girl, Pamela Bianco, accompanied by the poems that Walter de la Mare was inspired by them to write. . First Edition. Decorative Paper Covered Board. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

1919. BIANCO, Pamela. FLORA: A BOOK OF DRAWINGS. With Illustrative Poems by Walter de la Mare. London: William Heinemann, (1919). First edition of Bianco's first book; it is inscribed by her on the ffep.: "For Harriet Sprague, with love from Pamela Bianco." Illustrated with 8 color plates and many line illustrations. [8],43 pp. Quarto, illustrated paper boards. A little minor wear to boards, else a fine copy in a very good illustrated dust-wrapper, which has some occasional light soiling, is starting at spine folds, and has shallow loss at heel and crown. Pamela Bianco, born in 1906, was a drawing prodigy; and this book is a result of her first exhibition at the Leicester Galleries, in 1919, when she was thirteen. Walter de la Mare, a visitor to the show, was moved by her exquisite drawings to write the poems that accompany them in this volume. Bianco went on to illustrated books written by others, including her mother, Margery Williams Bianco, as well as books that she wrote. (National Book League,… Read More