1455800 1908 Florence Harrison In the Fairy Ring.

 

Harrison, Florence. In The Fairy Ring. London: Blackie & Son, [1908].  Quarto, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches: 63, [1]. Original ivory cloth decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt. Twenty-four full-color plates, illustrations throughout text. Light scattered foxing (heavier to first and last pages), rear endpapers toned, corners lightly bumped. First edition of Florence Harrison's In The Fairy Ring, a collection of original fairy poetry accompanied by vibrant full-color plates, with additional line drawings on every page. A boy falls into the hands of trolls, pixies take over one household's chores, a fairy replaces mortal children with changelings, and a girl interviews the Man in the Moon: "no one thinks, for the gold I fling, / To send me a brave balloon; / Though the lovers gaze and the poets praise / My ways in many a rune, / They never try, till the day they die, / To bring the Man from the Moon." A near-fine example of a Golden Age classic.