The Sleeping Beauty. by RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); EVANS, C. S - 1920

London: William Heinemann; J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia,, 1920. First trade edition, first impression, in the variant dark red jacket. Tall quarto. Original red cloth-backed pink, cream, and black pictorial boards, titles and decoration to spine in black, plain endpapers. With dust jacket. Tipped-in colour frontispiece within illustrated frame, illustrated title page printed in green, pink, and black, three double page illustrations printed in green, pink, and black, silhouette illustrations throughout the text. Slight rubbing to spine ends, touch of wear to bottom edge and tips of boards, faint foxing to edges and endmatter, a very good copy in the fresh jacket with sunned spine, slight marks to panels, scratch and tiny puncture to rear panel, creasing and nicks to extremities, short closed tear to foot of rear panel, another with subsequent creasing to head of front panel. Latimore and Haskell p. 52.; Riall, p. 141.