"The Allies' Fairy Book" illustrated by Arthur Rackham - J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia - 18cmx15cm - 1916 first American edition first printing - condition: fine copy, in original binding in mylar cover, with all 12 full page coloured Rackham plates and b/w illustrations present, name to ffep. The American first edition is considerably scarcer than the UK one. Classic tales include: "English tale, Jack the Giant Killer; Scotch tale, The Battle of the Birds; Welsh tale, Lludd and Llevelys; Irish tale, Guleesh; French tale, The Sleeping Beauty; Italian tale, Cesarino and the Dragon; Portuguese tale, What Came of Picking Flowers; Japanese tales, The Adventures of the Little Peachling, The Fox's Wedding, and, The Tongue-Cut Sparrow; Russian tale, Frost; a Serbian tale, The Golden Apple-Tree and the Nine Peahens; and finally, The Last Adventure of Thyl Ulenspiegel, a Belgian tale.