1909 · London
by Yeats, Jack Butler
London: Elkin Mathews, 1909. Small octavo. Stiff pale blue wrappers, with handcolored pictorial vignette. Illustrated throughout by the author. Wrappers sunned at spine and fore-edge of lower wrapper, usual slight tanning to text stock, but a very nice copy, very good or better. First edition, ordinary issue, of "One of Jack B. Yeats's Books for Children." This issue was published at one shilling; for five shillings, one could buy a copy colored throughout by Yeats, and with an original drawing. COLBECK II:955. (Inventory #: WRCLIT73591)