The Birthday in Fairy-Land. Story For Children.

Book. Boston: Wm. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1850. 12mo, stitched self wraps ( lacking printed wrappers?) Pp. 23. Sm. blank corner piece of title missing, lightly browned. First edition of this juvenile fantasy, in which a little girl in a dream is transported to fairyland where she attends a fairy princess' birthday celebration and learns in effect that there's no place like home. It was written for Higginson's niece and published for the children of the Pleasant Street Church, Newburyport, and is his first work of imaginative literature, preceded only by lectures and sermons. BAL 8197..