Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales by Grace James - 1910

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1910 A very good copy of the 1st trade edition in the original decorative cloth binding with tipped in colour frontispiece and 39 further colour plates by Warwick Goble. The binding is bright and clean. There is light wear to corners and edges, including spine joints, and there is pulling to the top and bottom of the spine. Page edges blue. The contents are complete and in very good clean condition. There are 2 small creases at a corner tip of the plate at p258. The plates are mounted on a thick brown card which has been tipped in to the book. Occasionally there is slight loss of the card surface onto the tissue guard in the gutter, and similarly slight loss of the text page surface in the gutter onto the card - presumably where the book was opened more widely after sale. There is the beginning of a small paper split at the front endpaper joint and a loose stitch at the bottom of the notes page at the beginning of the book. 2 pp publisher's list at the rear.