Title: Esmeralda. >>MINIATURE FAIRY TALE<<
Publisher: Frowde, Henry and Hodder & Stoughton. London.
Publication Date: 1910
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Circa 1910. 31, [1] pages. Colour frontispiece. Printed in green throughout. Rhyming prose fairy-tale. Slightly age-faded. Original purple and green floral endpapers. 69 x 79mm. Original purple paper covered boards with colour printed plate tipped onto front cover, as issued. Hinges cracked, text adhering to cover but with some weakness at the back. An original and charming fairy tale about the wicked Panjandrum, the Golden Thread, Mother Moly (a wicked witch), and her slave-girl, Esmeralda in the land of Ding-a-Dong. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann, nor Welsh. This is the only edition. OCLC number, 79892402. WorldCat locates 6 copies worldwide (Cambridge University, Bryn Mawr College, Virginia & Indiana Universities, Huntington and National Library of New Zealand). Seller Inventory # 5413