ADVENTURES WITH THE FLOWER FAIRIES.

London, Sandle Brothers, (1945).. FIRST EDITION circa 1945 (dated from British Library accession date), 4to, 285 x 215 mm, 11¼ x 8½ inches, white cloth backed boards, colour illustrated upper board with red title, grey lower board, (16) pages. Coloured title illustration and 13 large pretty coloured illustrations including 1 double page by V. G. Messenger. Alice inspired: 2 small girls picking wild flowers get sleepy, follow a sorrel fairy, shrink to a very small size, enter a hole in an oak tree, and at the end of a tunnel, arrive with lots of other flower creatures at the court of Queen Daisy and King Dandelion. The delightful flower fairies have no wings and are only distantly related to those of Cicely Barker. They are very slender and long limbed, curiously Fairy Snowdrop wears stockings and suspenders! The roses do a Wild Rose dance and the thistles the Scotch reel. Prose text in large print. Corners just very slightly rubbed, no inscriptions, contents very nice. A very good plus bright copy (issued without dustwrapper?). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.