The Birthday of the Infanta is a heart-wrenching tale about inner and outer beauty. Dedicated to Mrs. William H Grenfell of Taplow Court (Lady Desborough) The Birthday of the Infanta is about a hunchbacked dwarf, found in the woods by courtiers of the King of Spain. The hunchback's father sells him to the palace for the amusement of the king's daughter, the Infanta, on her twelfth birthday. Her birthday is the only time she is allowed to mingle with other children, and she much enjoys the many festivities arranged to mark ...
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The Birthday of the Infanta is a heart-wrenching tale about inner and outer beauty. Dedicated to Mrs. William H Grenfell of Taplow Court (Lady Desborough) The Birthday of the Infanta is about a hunchbacked dwarf, found in the woods by courtiers of the King of Spain. The hunchback's father sells him to the palace for the amusement of the king's daughter, the Infanta, on her twelfth birthday. Her birthday is the only time she is allowed to mingle with other children, and she much enjoys the many festivities arranged to mark it, especially the Dwarf's performance. He dances, as he did in the woods, thoroughly unaware of his audience's laughing at him. She insists on his performing a second time for her after dinner. The Dwarf mistakenly believes that the Infanta must love him, and tries to find her, passing through a garden where the flowers, sundial, and fish ridicule him, but birds and lizards do not. He finds his way inside the palace, and searches through rooms hoping to find the Infanta, but finding them all devoid of life. Eventually, he stumbles upon a grotesque monster that mimicks his every move in one of the rooms. When the realization comes that it was his own reflection, he knows then that the Infanta did not love him, but was laughing out of mockery, and he falls to the floor, kicking and screaming. The Infanta and the other children chance upon him and, imagining it to be another act, laugh and applaud while his flailing grows more and more weak before he stops moving altogether. When the Infanta demands more entertainment, a servant tries to rouse him, only to discover that he has died of a broken heart. Telling this to the Infanta, she speaks the last line of the story "For the future, let those who come to play with me have no hearts."
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Good+ No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. The MacMillan Co., 1929, First Edition, 8vo, 58 pages, illustrations, name on front endpage. Book bound in a cream colored cloth, no dust jacket. Book has some darkening to cloth, else good+ condition.
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Pamela Bianco. Good. No Jacket. Near Fine. Good/no Jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.58 A real Princess and the Infanta of Spain. clean tight copy grey covers show sunning to edges 1" in, slightly bumped corners and small stain front bottom middle.
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Very Good. First edition thus, 1929. Cloth hardcover with gilt titles, 57 pp., illustrated (some in color), clean unmarked text, Very Good ex-library copy with minor treatments (bookplates at the front endpapers, small stamps to some pages), some soiling or discoloration to the covers, no dust jacket.
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Pamela Bianco. Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 59 pp. Original gray cloth covers w/ light sunning to edges. DJ is soiled w/ light wear to edges. Price clipped. Contents nice.
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Very Good. Portland, Maine. Softcover. Illustrated cover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages with minor foxing. Thomas Bird Mosher was a publisher out of Portland Maine known for his contributions to the Private Press Movement in the United States. He reprinted various contemporary poetical works, and compiled a monthly small literary and political journal known as The Philistine, which also contained political cartoons dealing with issues at the time.
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Pamela Bianco. Near Fine. Hard Cover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Artist 58pp. Limited, Numbered, Edition-#427 of 500; lightly worn slipcase; Signed by artist. Textblock is immaculate and tight, very lightly rubbed and worn.
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Near fine. Quarto, 30pp., illustrated. A quite crisp, clean copy, near fine, with some scrunching to the the front interior fold of the glassine dust jacket, else a very nice indeed, with just a hint of scattered foxing. In the original silver chemise and slipcase. The chemise is in near fine condition with a modest marginal stain, and the slipcase is missing one thin side panel, thus good only. An entirely unrestored copy of this beautiful publication. An errata slip is apparently called for, but none is present in this copy. This is number 26 of 100 limited copies on Van Gelder Zonen paper (of a total limitation of 113).
