Moonfolk, A True Account of the Home of the Fairy Tales
Austin, Jane Goodwin. NY: Putnam, 1901 (original was 1871) Putnam's Knickerbocker Series. Red cloth with elaborate decoration in yellow and black; 8", 205 pp. Heavy slick white paper that shows the woodcuts well. Full color pictorial endpapers, look art deco and are presumably new to this edition. Stain on front board that has bleed thru other pages. edges and top and bottom of spine dinged and frayed. Jane Goodall Austin is one of those forgotten writers even though she was the author of twenty four very popular books and numerous short stories, and a close friend of nineteenth century literary persona such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott. Austin's books are not "classics" or "masterpieces," but they are remarkable for their breadth (ranging from historical romances to gothic adventures to realistic sketches to children's stories). This is one of a collection of fairy tales that she wrote.
