At the Back of the North Wind
first edition Hardcover
1919 · New York
by MacDonald, George; Smith, Jessie Willcox
New York: David McKay, 1919. First Edition Thus/First State. Hardcover. Near Fine. No DJ.. First Edition Thus/First State. Hardcover. The classic story richly illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. First state (see, Nudelman, A53.1). A handsome copy. Very minor shelf/edge wear, discrete owner signature on ffep, hint of toning at textblock edges, else tight, bright and unmarred. Beige cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, blue ink lettering and decorative elements, color pictorial onlay, pictorial endpages, frontispiece, teg. Small 4to. 342pp. Illus. (color plates). (Inventory #: 3922)