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The story of three water drops

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll S76 1946	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

Additional Authors

Rose, Francis, Sir, 1909-1979.

Description

31, [1] p. : ill.; 22 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Children's literature, English.

Note

Page numbers spelled out, "Page Five" to "Page Thirty-one."
Issued in full white paper over boards, with watercolor painting of children enclosed in water drops wrapping front to back, repeated on dust jacket.
Printed on sized paper.
With color illustrations throughout, many full-page.
“This is the story of three water-drops: Indigo, who went to visit the wise sea-serpent at the bottom of the sea; Limber, who climbed up the sun’s ladder and discovered what the earth was like; and violet, who braved a winter journey and saw the most beautiful thing in the world.”—From front dust jacket flap.
Raine’s second book; a children’s fantasy tale that resolves itself in the Christmas story and a child’s vision of Mary and a miraculous Christmas rose.
Franics Rose was a protégé of Gertrude Stein. He and his wife, the travel writer Dorothy Carrington, were also members of Kathleen Raine’s circle.
Berg Collection copy with presentation inscription in black pen by the illustrator, on the first flyleaf, recto, “To Robert, with love, Francis,” above a drawing of a rose and three water drops.

Access (note)

Call Number

Berg Coll Raine S76 1946

OCLC

82007177

Author

Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003.

Title

The story of three water drops / Illustrated by Francis Rose.

Imprint

London : Nicholson & Watson, [1946]

Edition

First Edition.

Access

Restricted access; request permission in holding division.

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Added Author

Rose, Francis, Sir, 1909-1979. Illustrator

Rose, Francis, Sir, 1909-1979. Artist

Rose, Francis, Sir, 1909-1979. Inscriber

Rose, Francis, Sir, 1909-1979. Signer

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Raine S76 1946