The Children's Country.

Burdekin (Kay [Katharine, also known as 'Murray Constantine'])

Publication details: New York: William Morrow,1929,

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Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, using her nickname: 'Ella, with love from Betty, Sep: 3rd 1929'. The recipient was the author's Cornwall-friend, artist Ella Naper - close also to the author's sister, Rowena Cade, who built and founded the Minack Theatre in the cliffs of Porthcurno.Scarce. The author's only children's book, not published in the UK; it is an unusual fairy tale, with a characteristically progressive approach to questions of gender: two Scottish children, Donald and Carol, adventure in Fairyland, finding there the distinction between boys and girls dissolved.Burdekin would later write under the pseudonym Murray Constantine, notably 'Swastika Night' - her work continuing to challenge conventions around gender roles.

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FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 7 colour-printed plates, these (uncredited, but by Beth Krebs Morris) with a sliver of waterstaining at head, occasional very light spotting, pp. viii, [1], 262, 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in orange, the latter with repeat of one of the plates laid down, backstrip lettering rubbed, light wear at tips and a couple of faint marks, edges slightly toned with small waterstain to top edge, a few faint spots to endpapers, good

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