Mushroom Fairies.
Akron: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1910. First edition. 12 chromolithograph plates. All text inside illustrated chromolithograph borders printed in green. Edges rubbed and some dampstaining to boards. Some toning to endpapers and throughout, mostly to margins. Binding a bit shaken but overall a good and very bright copy of a scarce book. Pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Oblong quarto. 159 pp. Item #16825
OCLC describes the present book as an “unathorized translation” of Smattingarnas Svampbok (1900) by the Swedish writer and illustrator Signe Aspelin (1881-1961), though Mushroom Fairies itself does not mention Aspelin or even that it is a translation. A search for more information on this topic proved inconclusive.
Adah Louise Sutton Saalfield (1860-1935) was a children’s book author who, under the name Louise A. Field, wrote stories continuing Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit series. Only one copy noted in OCLC.
Price: $850.00