The Naughty Princess

First edition, first impression.  168pp, illustrated with line drawings, full page and in text.  Pale blue cloth boards with dark blue lettering front and spine.  Square 8vo.  Cloth is worn, rubbed around edges and folds, rounded on corners and rubbed and scuffed at spine tips.  Previous owner’s name neatly inked on front free endpaper and a few minor signs of handling internally. A little softened.  

Anthony Armstrong was the pen name of George Anthony Armstrong Willis (1897-1976), an British-Canadian writer and dramatist.  A writer in diverse genres,  Armstrong’s ‘Naughty Princess’ is a collection of fairy stories for adults, following on from his similar collection, Pack of Pieces (1942).  Delightful, witty and tad risqué, the stories, most of which were published earlier in Strand Magazine, are both a challenge and a tribute to the conventional fairy tale trope.