Walter De La Mare — Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1924. Cloth. A charming and entertaining series of poems by acclaimed author Walter de la Mare, with colour images. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and fifteen colour plates. Collated complete. Being a collection of old and new verses from Walter John de la Mare, an English poet, short story writer and novelist. With titles including: Old Shellover, Cake and Sack, Tillie, Jim Jay, and Not I! amongst others. Illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser, an English artist, designer and author. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and the odd small handling mark. Light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: C. Lovat Fraser. Very Good .