Magic City
$700.00
Author: E. Nesbit
Illustrator: H.R. Millar
NESBIT, E[dith]. The Magic City. With Illustrations by H.R. Millar. London: Macmillan and Co, 1910. 8vo, xiv 333pp. + [2] advts. Red cloth pictorially stamped in gilt. 27 b&w plates. Spine ends and corners a tad rubbed, cloth a bit rippled with light soiling, spine a bit sunned, else an internally clean, tight copy.
First edition. Nesbit’s imaginative fantasy novel in which a young boy is magically transported into a giant model city he has constructed. There Noah (from a Noah’s Ark playset) informs him that he must perform seven great deeds in order to prove that he is the prophesized Deliverer.