Author: Wiggin, Kate Douglas; and Smith, Nora. A. (eds).

Publisher: New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

Format: Hardcover octavo, black cloth boards with gilt text to spine, colour process lithograph pastedown on cover, decorative endpapers, 339pp, 12 colour plates, 24 x 18.3cm.

First edition thus. Ten classic stories illustrated in neo-classical style and vivid colour by Maxfield Parrish (American, 1870–1966).

Soiling to boards with paper loss to pastedown, previous owner’s inscription in ink on flyleaf, gutter cracked at front, some pages not “split” open.