THE GREY FAIRY BOOK

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original grey cloth illustrated and with titles in silver, black and orange. Housed in the original grey card slipcase. Top edge grey. Illustrated title page, colour frontispiece, 12 further full page colour plates and 10 large tailpieces by Lauren Nassef. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The slipcase, very lightly rubbed to the extremities remains structurally sound.

First published in 1900, with illustrations by Henry Justice Ford, this newly illustrated edition features an introduction by Kate Bernheimer. The volume contains 35 stories including Donkey Skin; The Goblin Pony; An Impossible Enchantment; The Story of Dschemil and Dachemila; Janni and the Draken; The Partnership of the Thief and the Liar; Fortunatus and his Purse; The Goat-faced Girl; What came of picking Flowers; The Story of Bensurdatu; The Magician's Horse; The Little Gray Man; Herr Lazarus and the Draken; The Story of the Queen of the Flowery Isles; Udea and her Seven Brothers; The White Wolf; Mohammed with the Magic Finger; Bobino; The Dog and the Sparrow; The Story of the Three Sons of Hali; The Story of the Fair Circassians; The Jackal and the Spring; The Bear; The Sunchild; The Daughter of Buk Ettemsuch; Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox; The Unlooked for Prince; The Simpleton; The Street Musicians; The Twin Brothers; Cannetella; The Ogre; A Fairy's Blunder; Long, Broad, and Quickeye; Prunella.