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Rare and modern books

De La Mare

PEACOCK PIE. A Book of Rhymes

Henry Holt and Co., 1936

44.00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1936
Place of printing
New York
Author
De La Mare
Publishers
Henry Holt and Co.
Edition
FIRST EDITION THUS. A LOVELY BOOK FOR CHILDREN, PRINTED AT THE
First edition
Yes

Description

The first edition to feature the illustrations by Jocelyn Crowe. With "eighty-one little pictures in colour by Jocelyn Crowe." They are distributed throughout typically one per page. Tall 8vo, original sea-blue cloth with gilt peacock device on the upper cover, spine lettered in gilt and with gilt peacock feather, top edge dyed blue. vii, 112pp. A very nice copy of the seldom seen book. The cloth in excellent shape, fine and free of both wear and fading, the gilt on the spine very mildly mellowed, the paper fresh and clean with virtually no evidence of age.