Cicely Mary Barker — Simon the Swan

London, Blackie, 1988. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated sequel to The Lord of the Rushie River. First edition. The long-awaited sequel to The Lord of the Rushie River. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and nine full-page colour images. Collated complete. A mother swan watches her children and wonders which of them will take after her clever and strong husband the Lord of the Rushie River. Not Simon, she concludes, but Simon is determined to prove her wrong. Written and illustrated by Cicely Mary Barker, an English artist, writer, and illustrator best known as the illustrator who created the famous Flower Fairies. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent with minor sunning to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Cicely Mary Barker. Fine/Fine.