Puck of Pook's Hill / by Rudyard Kipling
1906, First Edition. London : Macmillan. Very good copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #397400
Physical description; 306 pages : illustrations (frontis.) ; 18 cm. Contents; Weland's sword -- Puck's song -- A tree song -- Young men at the manor -- Sir Richard's song -- The knights of the joyous venture -- Harp song of the dane women -- Thorkild's song -- Old men at Pevensey -- The runes on Weland's sword -- A centurion of the Thirtieth -- Cities and thrones and powers -- A British-Roman song -- On the great wall -- A song to Mithras -- The winged hats -- A pict song -- Hal o' the draft -- Prophets have honour all over the earth -- A smuggler's song -- "Dymchurch Flit" -- The bee boy's song -- A three-part song -- The treasure and the law -- Song of the fifth river -- The children's song. Subjects; Puck (Legendary character) ; Juvenile fiction. Puck (Legendary character). Time travel ; Juvenile fiction. Space and time ; Juvenile fiction. Space and time. Time travel. Children's literature England 20th century. English fiction. Fairies ; Juvenile fiction. Fiction in English.
Price: €65.00