![]() There is very slight wear and denting to the outer boards and a little bit of paper loss to corners. It had about it a beauty more permanent than the soft lip or flashing eye, a beauty that is for ever and mocks Time."Our copy of the book is a large hardback with glazed pictorial boards, published by Jonathan Cape in 1979. ![]() Next, with a little gold taken from the dawn sky, she cunningly wrought a splendrous jewel that was the perfect mirror of her love. To this end she asked the man that plays the music to stop playing for a while then she plucked from the sea of clouds a most brilliant rose-coloured moonstone. Although all happiness was in her dance, there was also a little sadness, for whenever the dance led her into the same part of the sky as the Sun, she seemed to simply fade away, and feared the Sun might never notice her.On this night the lady of the pale complexion resolved to make herself known to the Sun by sending him a token of her affection. This lady, whom all mortals call the Moon, danced a merry dance in the pathless sky, for she had fallen in love, and the object of her devotion was the Sun. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land. "Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. ![]()
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