The Little Lame Prince (Albert Whitman Editions of Selected Classics)

[vi], 128 pp. Navy blue cloth, color picture plate mounted on front board, gilt titles and border, color illustrated endpapers, color frontispiece and plates, chapter headers, and calligraphic captions by Violet Moore Higgins. "The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak (often published under its shorter title The Little Lame Prince) is a story for children written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and first published in 1875. In the story, a young prince whose legs are paralysed due to a childhood trauma is given a magical travelling cloak by his fairy godmother; he uses this cloak to go on various adventures, and develops great wisdom and empathy in the process."