PARKER (N. [Nancy]) & PARKER (B. [Bessie])

Arctic Orphans.

13 full-page colour chromolithograph illustrations by N. Parker, facing text mixed with lithographic illustration printed in brown, additional ornaments to chapter titles. First edition. Oblong fol., 31cmx23.5cm, n.p. (56pp.). Original publisher’s pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. London, W. & R. Chambers, 1924.

£350.00

Corners and spine chipped, with some loss to tail of spine, light spotting and pencil marking to contents page, illustrations all bright and clean; overall, good condition for a scarce children’s book.

Illustrated and written, respectively, by sisters Nancy and Bessie Parker. A vibrant and irresistibly playful children’s book, following the adventures of three anthropomorphic young polar bears cast adrift on an ice floe who, variously, hunt, take a voyage on the back of a whale, attend a school governed by a wise walrus, and encounter Santa Claus in the guise of a sea lion.

Stock No.
233175