Fairyland of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul - 1931

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Good. Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. 19 color plates (including frontis and 32 full-page black & white illustrations, 166p. Rebound for the library in red buckram with most of original red backstrip and front and back cover panels mounted. 33 cm. Ex. Lib. (Reading Public Library in Reading, PA). Library markings include a white call number on the original backstrip panel, a library stamp inside front cover, discard stamp and inked call number on title-page, and a card pocket and checkout clip inside back cover. The illustration on the front cover has some scraping and scratches. Book slightly bowed. Contents virtually as new except for library markings. The color illustration ("The Glowlamp Fairy") listed as facing page 93 actually faces page 96 in this copy.

Melbourne: Ramsay Publishing Pty. Ltd., 1926 Folio. original blue cloth gilt (rubbed with wear to extremities, some crude restoration to cloth, prev. owners' names, a few marks and small tape repairs, some creasing to tissue-guarded frontispiece, else internallly clean & neat) in homemade slipcase; pp. [ii (last limitation), 166, with 19 tipped-in tissue-guarded colour plates, 32 tipped-in black and white plates + other text figures & pictorial endpapers. No. 200 of 1000 copies of the Edition-de-luxe, signed by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. A good only copy of a desirable Australian illustrated childrens book, especially so signed.. Signed by Artist. Edition De Luxe. Hard Cover. G/In Slipcase.

Melbourne, Ramsay, 1926.. Folio. ii+166pp, with 19 tipped-in colour plates, 32 tipped-in black and white plates and other illustrations. Pictorial endpapers. The original pale blue cloth a touch marked with minimal wear at head and foot of backstrip. Neat previous owner's name, an internally excellent copy with the plates and text in bright undamaged state.. Number 646 of 1000 copies. Unsigned in the secondary pale blue cloth. See Muir 5600 The first edition of Outhwaite's greatest work. There were later editions published in London and New York.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929. Authorized American Edition. Hardcover. This is the first trade edition, published in New York, preceding the London edition by 2 years. (A deluxe edition was published in Melbourne in1926 and was limited to 1000 copies). This edition also includes 2 stories (The Crystal Gazer & The Wave) and 3 color plates (The Fairy Ring, The Crystal Gazer & The Lost Playmate) and 1 b&w plate (The Wave) not included in the London edition. Verses by Annie R. Rentoul, stories by Grenbry Outhwaite and Annie R. Rentoul. Sml. folio, 166pp, frontis & 15 color plates & 31 intricate b&w full page plates and decorations in text by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Orig. red decorated buckram with gilt title. Spine a little sunned with a couple of small marks, and the gilt a trifle oxidized, but very nice overall. Text is supremely clean, crisp & tight. Muir 5602 for this famous children's book, whose illustrations of fairies, mermaids, kookaburras, frogs, koalas, lizards & brownies draw… Read More