MACDONALD, George (author). Frank PAPÉ (illustrator). Macdonald, George (author). Frank PAPÉ (illustrator). At The Back Of The North Wind. London Blackie And Son Limited. [Circa 1923.]

£145.00

8vo. Original elaborate pictorial cloth blocked in Art Nouveau style in green, white, yellow and orange to spine and upper board with an onlaid plate; beautifully illustrated with 12 coloured plates by Frank Papé, and 76 line illustrations after engravings by Arthur Hughes; a near fine copy in excellent condition, with original owner’s prize bookplate to inner upper board; increasingly scarce.

Early edition illustrated thus, following the first of 1911, which has a dated title-page and gilded top edges.

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