At the Back of the North Wind / George MacDonald
Book
352 pages. 12 color plates.
One page of advertising for "Holiday Editions of Juvenile Classics."
Diamond, a young boy living in nineteenth-century London, has many adventures as he travels with the beautiful lady North Wind and comes to know the many facets of her protective and violent temper.
2015.7.258
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
FaithJuvenile fiction1900s
8-1/4 in
6 in
George MacDonald
Maria Louise Kirk
First
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
United States
North America
1909
Publisher's Binding- Poster Style
Maria Louise Kirk
Decorative red cloth binding with black and white stamped illustration of a young boy and a girl with a broom walking under falling leaves on a cobblestone path under a quarter moon. White stamping is bright and clear - it is often found rubbed and worn. Orange decorated endpapers.
Christmas gift inscription dated 1909.