The Enchanted Island of Yew
Baum, L. Frank Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1903, Frank Cory Illustrator. Sesely, daughter of Baron Merd of Heg, and two companions are enjoying a picnic in the Forest of Lurla when they are accosted by a fairy. The fairy, bored with centuries of insipid fairy life, amazes the girls by pleaded to be changed into a mortal. Though the girls are surprised that they even have the power to do such a thing, the fairy explains how it can be done. The girls agree to transform the fairy into a human boy for the space of one year. The newly-minted male is dubbed Prince Marvel, and, furnished with fairy arms and armor and an enchanted horse (a deer transformed), sets out to have adventures. Binding soiled and rubbed w/ fraying to corners and spine ends. Light foxing to edges of text block Hinges tender with a split beginning at bottom. . Faint fingerprint smudges to margins of several leaves. 8 full page color illustrations and great pictures in orange in background on several pages.Media shipping is 3.50
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