POPPYLAND – De Vere Stacpoole, 1st 1914 – ILLUSTRATED ASIAN FAIRYTALES STORIES
POPPYLAND
Book Details + Condition: John Lane, The Bodley Head, John Lane Co. Bell and Cockburn (London, New York, Toronto). First Edition, 1914. Oversized hardcover with beautiful Art Nouveau decorated boards. 219 pages, with full-page illustrations by Leighton Pearce. De Vere Stacpoole’s collection of Asian fairytales and children’s short stories. Chapters include:
– The Children’s Paradise
– The Finding of Bellissima
– The Well Forsaken
– Grief
– Carmilla and the Countess
– Koko
– The Story of the Stork
– The Story of the Great Bronze Tulip
– And more.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; normal aging and wear to boards; chafed spine ends; name/info to inside front board and small numerical notation to rear inside board; toning to endpapers; interior text is clean and free of markings.
