[Rex Whistler. Walter de la Mare]
'I advise all good children to break open their parents' money-boxes and buy it.'
A collection of seven stories for children by Walter de la Mare, including 'The Lord Fish', 'Dick and the Beanstalk' and 'The Old Lion'. Rex Whistler's attractive illustrations grace the text and the dust jacket, making this a beautiful gift volume. The date or edition is not given. This edition was published shortly after the first (1933); the rear jacket mentions Mare's Early One Morning, published in 1935. The dust jacket is pink-tinted, rather than the original yellow-tint.
[Whistler & Fuller. The Work of Rex Whistler. No. 454]
Walter de la Mare. Illustrated by Rex Whistler. Faber & Faber. London. [c.1935]. First published in 1933. Hardback, octavo; pink cloth-bound boards with blue decorations and title to front board and spine, dust jacket. 291 pages. Dust jacket, endpapers, matching illustrated title-page, 3 full-page plates, 7 head-pieces and reproduction of jacket spine by Rex Whistler. English. 210 x 145mm. 0.65kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; very slight shelf wear to jacket, short 1 cm tear to head of spine, head of spine reinforced with paper, price-clipped; slight lean to spine, slight spotting to edge; jacket and boards remain fresh and crisp.
