1914 Imagina
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Description
Author's Presentation Copy, Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed
The first edition of this work, signed by the author, a prominent socialite, art collector and patron of the arts. She was married to financier and co-owner of the Grand Union Hotel in New York, Simeon Ford.
Tipped in to the front pastedown is a signed note by Ford reading 'with love from Julia Ellsworth Ford, remembering pleasant days', and Ford's typed card, reading 'Mrs. Simeon Ford'.
Illustrated with two colour plates by Arthur Rackham, and charming vignette illustrations by the author's daughter, Lauren Ford. Collated, complete.
A melancholy tale of a child's imagined world.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Damp staining to tail of rear board, with fading to head of rear board and to fore edge of front board. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Author's handwritten signature and typed card tipped in to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with the odd spot, most concentrated to the start of the work.
Good
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