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Wymps,

SHARP, Evelyn. Wymps, and other fairy tales. With eight coloured illustrations and a cover by Mrs. Percy Dearmer. John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1897
Half title, col. front., title page in red, 12pp cata. Orig. red dec. cloth, blocked in yellow, black & green, lettered in yellow; sl. rubbed & dulled, head of spine sl. bumped, tail of spine sl. chipped, cloth sl. lifting on rear board. Ink inscription on leading f.e.p.: 'Gladys Hindson, The Elm, Strawberry Hill Road.' A good plus copy of an uncommon children's book.

¶Evelyn Sharp, 1869-1955, author and women's suffrage advocate best remembered now for her children's books and extreme activism. She left her family to move to London in 1894 and began writing. This is Sharp's first children's book, which was published two years after her first novel At the Relton Arms and in the same year as her second novel The Making of a Prig.
Stock #85175
£150


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