How to see Fairies

VAN SANDWYK, Charles

How to see Fairies

New York: SMITHMARK Publishers, 1999 

8vo., plain burgundy boards with decorative endpapers; in the matching dustwrapper priced $19.95 to the lower panel; unpaginated [pp. xxxii] with text printed caligraphically throughout, as well as numerous illustrations and endpapers in full colour, all by the author/illustrator; the book near-fine, just slightly bumped at spine tips; the wrapper a little scuffed and scratched, particularly at extremities; otherwise very good. 

First SMITHMARK edition, with full number line 1-10. This copy additionally comes with a printed bookmark, tied with a rainbow-coloured ribbon, which originally came from Van Sandwyk’s ‘After Glow’, and which reads: If visions of Fairland dance in your head, / then tie this old tag to a post on your bed. / Your dreams will be rich and your heart / will feel light as you wake up refreshed from / THE COOL AUTUMN NIGHT.

A charming book describing the antics of various little people and fairy folk.