London: The Medici Society, 1929 First edition. Hardcover book. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, with gilt crest to front cover, no dustjacket. Gilt top page edges. 47pp, quarto. With 24 tissue-guarded plates from sepia wash drawings by the author, with her verses printed opposite, mainly on themes of children and mothers. Foreword by HJC on the author, who had died in 1926. This is a Good copy due to the lower 2cm corner of each page margin stained brown- otherwise very good pages, with light rubbing to cover edges and a little foxing to closed page edges. Lovely illustrations. .Pictures available.

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Bookseller: David Ford Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 30304
Title: Ragamuffins. Twenty-Four Drawings and Verses.
Author: Lady Stanley, Dorothy:
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: The Medici Society, 1929
Bookseller catalogs: Poetry;

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