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Hardcover. 1st Edition 1st Impression. 1914 Condition: VG+ Beige cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Some yellowing to pages due to age. 13 tipped-in colour plates, and frontispiece of HRH Princess Mary. Other b/w drawings throughout 'All profits from sale are given to The Queen's Work for Women"". Overall a very nice copy. British Great War fund-raising album assembled with the approval of Buckingham Palace and directed at children. Princess Mary was the only daughter of King George V and was 17 years old when the Great War began. Her portrait was pasted-in as the frontispiece of the book .The fourteen tipped-in color plates include:'So nobody can quite explain Exactly where the rainbows end' (Arthur Rackham)'True Spartan Hearts' (Edmund Dulac)'The Ant Lion' (EJ Detmold)'A Holiday in Bed' (W Russell Flint)' 140 pages pp
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