1918 Scarce 1stED - The Book of Elves and Fairies illustrated by Milo WinterAuthor: Frances Jenkins Olcott. Illustrated by Milo Winter. Title: The Book of Elves and Fairies. Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1918. First Edition. Language: Text in English. Size: 8 x 5. 5 inches. Pages: xix 430 pages. Binding: Attractive and near fine original olive green cloth binding, spine and front cover lettered in white, with mounted color illustration on the front board (hinges fine,

part imaginative verse-album

an industrious and inventive boy

both as an author and in the transmission of the fables

Author: Hans Christian Andersen

The book: Scarce Signed First Edition of this story of the fairies’ Christmas

seeking fortune and the mythical Dragon's Blood

was known for producing finely crafted editions of literary classics during the late 19th century

mounted colored fairy plates by Hilda T

Pages: 399 pages

as indicated by the absence of any subsequent printing information on the half-title page and the presence of the 1919 publication date on the title page

following the journey and adventures of Lalla Rookh

and toning throughout