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.
![At the Back of the North Wind / George MacDonald picture number 1](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/301/2f847050-d670-11e8-85d6-157c234ec877-ulCTPc0.lg@2x.jpg)
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.