Home-Made Fairies.
by FAIRIES. BARKER, Jessie M
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Printed by hand at the Temple Sheen Press, [London]., 1912. First edition. Octavo. 32 pages. Grey wrappers. These ''home-made fairies'', appearing to a little girl in short tales of a weirdly calculating artlessness, are what we now know as imaginary friends.Covers creased and nicked at overlapping edges. Good. Very scarce - Copac lists only the copy at the British Library.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FAIRIES002699
- Title
- Home-Made Fairies.
- Author
- FAIRIES. BARKER, Jessie M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Printed by hand at the Temple Sheen Press, [London].
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- fairies
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