With thirteen illustrations partially hand coloured by a prior owner. Front hinge starting, with board holding firm. Rear joint starting, with board holding firm. Fading to perimeters of front board, with further discolouration to board centre. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with losses to the cloth. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Collated, complete.From political activist and children's writer Edith Nesbit, author of such novels as 'The Railway Children' and 'Five Children and It'.With two pages of publisher's advertisements to the year, and an inscription to the front free endpaper. Nesbit's charming tale follows a young boy who inherits the dilapidated Arden Castle, and with the help of a magical Mouldiwarp, travels through time with his sister, searching for clues about a lost treasure.?A sequel was published the following year.?Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-three further illustrations from popular illustrator of children's works, H. The scarce first edition of Edith Nesbit's beloved children's novel, illustrated throughout by H.
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