First edition. Quarto. Publisher’s grey cloth, lettered and decorated in blue. A fine copy, uncommonly clean and bright, in a good example of the rare dustwrapper, which has wear to the edges, with loss to the spine ends in particular, and with reinforcement to the spine also. Ownership inscription dated 1931 to first blank.
 
Very rare in the original dustwrapper.
 
A beautifully illustrated illustrated volume of Fairy Poetry, notable for including the first published illustration of any of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works, with the colour plate “And The Padding Feet Of Many Gnomes A-coming” illustrating his poem Goblin Feet.