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664 - MARIE of ROMANIA Kildine. The Story of a Naughty Little Princess [...]. Preface by Robert de Flers. Images of Job. Tours: Maison Alfred Mame et fils, n.d. [1921] Large 4° (a few leaves slightly soiled). Publisher’s cardboard binding, blue cloth with polychrome and gold decoration, red edges (small stain on upper cover, slight yellow stains and small scuff on lower cover, lower caps and edges slightly rubbed, corners slightly rounded, inner edges partially split). Numerous illustrations, including 27 in color. A copy from the unnumbered regular edition. Marie of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1875–1938), granddaughter of Queen Victoria, married the future King Ferdinand I of Romania in 1893. Queen of Romania from 1914 onward, she was also a prolific writer, author of short stories and novels as well as her memoirs, *Histoire de ma vie* (Plon, 1937–1938, 3 vols.). In his preface, Robert de Flers highlights the liveliness of the characters created by the queen and pays special tribute to Job’s illustrations, calling them “among the artist’s most successful,” while emphasizing his remarkable understanding of the connection between image and text.
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MARIE of ROMANIA Kildine. The Story of a Naughty Little Princess [...]. Preface by Robert de Flers. Images of Job. Tours: Maison Alfred Mame et fils, n.d. [1921] Large 4° (a few leaves slightly soiled). Publisher’s cardboard binding, blue cloth with polychrome and gold decoration, red edges (small stain on upper cover, slight yellow stains and small scuff on lower cover, lower caps and edges slightly rubbed, corners slightly rounded, inner edges partially split). Numerous illustrations, including 27 in color. A copy from the unnumbered regular edition. Marie of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1875–1938), granddaughter of Queen Victoria, married the future King Ferdinand I of Romania in 1893. Queen of Romania from 1914 onward, she was also a prolific writer, author of short stories and novels as well as her memoirs, *Histoire de ma vie* (Plon, 1937–1938, 3 vols.). In his preface, Robert de Flers highlights the liveliness of the characters created by the queen and pays special tribute to Job’s illustrations, calling them “among the artist’s most successful,” while emphasizing his remarkable understanding of the connection between image and text.
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