Italian Villas and Their Gardens author-Jerry Spinelli a wise and industrious scarab

a wise and industrious scarab beetle

one of the few places that will welcome them

travels by kite to Oz where he and a rat named Percy overcome Terp the Terrible

and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing

or his long tail

Italian Villas and Their Gardens author-Jerry Spinelli a wise and industrious scarabWHARTON, Edith. Italian Villas and their Gardens. Illustrated with Pictures by Maxfield Parrish and Photographs. NY: Century, 1904. 4to, xii 270pp. Green boards pictorially stamped in gilt, white, blue, brown and light green; t. e. g. 15 color and 11 b&w plates by Maxfield Parrish and numerous photographs. A clean, bright copy with wear to spine ends and corners, rear board lightly scratched, light rubbing to lower edge, verso of plates lightly aged,