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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. "Fly-Away Wonder Tales" is actually one long fantasy story with numerous chapters. This edition was given a new title, but is a reprint of an earlier book ("The Magical Man of Mirth", issued in 1910 by George W. Jacobs) The story is by Elbridge H. Sabin. The beautiful, color illustrations, which raise the book from the ordinary to a higher realm, are by Elenore Plaisted Abbott and Helen Alden Knipe. The wonderful complexity of the pictures creates a magic beyond the rather pedestrian adventure laid out in the text. There are certainly marvelous things for the little heroine to behold, and a mighty task to complete, but the seven color pictures are rare illumination. The book is well-worn from considerable use, but complete and intact and quite serviceable. (Please read our full condition report given below) ************************************** One might say that this is a First Edition Thus, because not only was the title changed, but the book's binding is different and the publisher is different (Albert Whitman & Company); but, really the only thing that changed as goes the story itself was the title . everything else is just as it was in the original 1910 edition. Nothing was added. It is the 1920 First Printing of the Whitman Edition. ************************************** Little Dollie and her snippy talking slate (Miss Martha) are whisked away on the back of a giant owl seeking the troubled City of Mirth. It will be Dollie's task to free the city from an evil magician. Along the way Dollie meets numerous talking animals (a lobster, a whale, a polar bear, magical red fish, etc.) and fairies and mermaids. She has wonderful adventures under the ocean . no problems with breathing - but after all it is a Fairy Tale! All of this contributes to colorful illustrations, which, including the stunning frontispiece, are seven in number. The horridness of the evil magician is only hinted at in one of the pictures. The mermaid, on the other hand - or fin!) is quite beautiful. Is Dollie successful in her quest before her mother awakens her from an afternoon nap? ************************************* TITLE : Fly-Away Wonder Tales (Previously published in 1910 as "The Magical Man of Mirth") / AUTHOR : Elbridge H. Sabin (Elbridge Hosmer Sabin, 1865 - 1934) / ILLUSTRATORS : Elenore Plaisted Abbott (1875 - 1935) / Helen Alden Knipe (1881 - 1959) / IMPRINT : Albert Whitman & Company / PLACE : Chicago, Illinois / DATE : (1920) / EDITION : Reprint - First Whitman Printing / STATUS : Out of Print - OP - Scarce / DETAILS : Illustrated trade hardcover; contains 7 color plate illustrations (including frontispiece); Text and pictures printed on calendered paper (semi-glossy); 233 pages; 6 7/8" x 9"; olive green cloth covered boards and spine, with pastedown color illustration to front cover and gilt lettering on spine and front; the endpaper have a generic repeating motif of line drawings depicting children reading. ************************************* CONDITION GOOD ONLY This is a previously owned book that is well-worn through considerable use, but which remains clean and serviceable, being complete and intact with all illustrations present, the following noted :: EXTERIOR : Spine extremities are considerably frayed, with loss to cloth; spine lettering is considerably dimmed and the spine surface darkened; board surfaces display moderate surface rub; the paste-down illustration on the front displays modest surface rub and some small spotting; the rear cover has a shallow diagonal crease (or dent); corner tips of boards are bumped, with accompanying splitting of cloth; board edges are rubbed, with the top edge of the rear cover displaying a small split near the spine. The text-block edges are darkened. / BINDING : Tender. The book seems to have been much read and the whole text-block sits rather slack in the case. No leaves are detached or loose, but the binding is cracked here and there (binding thread, etc, exposed at the gutters); there i.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Includes a 38-page introductory essay "A Dissertation on Fairies" by the English folklorist Joseph Ritson. Original decorative printed and gilt brown cloth hard covers. Top-edge gilt. Small 12mo. The book is in three sections, each with separate pagination: vi,198;viii,192;viii,192pp. Professionally rebacked with original decorative titled spine section relaid, and new rear board. Moderate handling and wear to covers. Toning to edges; mild foxing to endpapers. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Book.