INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND THE ILLUSTRATOR - Quarto, color pictorial boards titled in gilt on the spine, in a superb color pictorial dust wrapper. [32 pages], with text by Jane Yolan, each beautifully illustrated in color by Jane Dyer. Near fine.

First edition. Inscribed and signed by both the author and the illustrator.

"Once in a stone house on the edge of a tangled forest lived a woodsman...." Jane Yolan's fairy tale, beautifully illustrated by Jane Dyer, tells of a wicked sorceress seeking fabled riches while a young girl, whose kindness to the animals of the forest is returned when they keep her safe from "the terrifying beast that roams the forest". -- Excerpts from the dw blurb.

CHILDREN; ILLUSTRATED; FIRST EDITION; ILLUSTRATIONS; COLOR; THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN BOWER; JANE YOLEN; JANE DYER; SIGNED; INSCRIBED; AUTOGRAPH; FAIRY TALE; WITCH; WICKED SORCERESS; ANIMALS; WILDLANDS; WOODSMAN; CURRY; MORALITY TALE; FICTION.