8vo. Original green paper-covered boards with large onlaid pictorial plate to upper cover, pictorial endpapers; illustrated throughout in colour by S.B. Pearse; an exceptional copy of a very scarce book; both internally and externally near fine, with a neat ink ownership inscription to half-title dated 1922; a vulnerable book, and scarce.
First edition of the first, and best-loved, Ameliaranne title, which precedes others in this long series by some years, with Ameliaranne Keeps Shop, the second title, published 8 years later, in 1928.
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