London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1913. First edition of de la Mare’s finest collection of poems for children. In his tribute “To Walter de la Mare,” written in celebration of de la Mare’s 75th birthday, T. S. Eliot expressed his admiration for de la Mare’s “whispered incantation which allows / Free passage to the phantoms of the mind”, “the delicate, invisible web you wove.” The Times called Peacock Pie, “surely one of the great children’s books of the century.” More recently, Michael Dirda declared it “one of the half-dozen best books of poetry for children ever written.” Since its original publication, Peacock Pie has been reprinted many times, with well illustrated versions by W. Heath Robinson (1916), Claud Lovat Fraser (1924), and Edward Ardizzone (1946), among other artists. Large 8vo, original blue cloth over boards, lettered and panelled (on the front cover) in gilt, dust jacket. An extraordinary copy, immaculate except for extremely faint offset on free endpapers, and a very small area of faint discoloration at the bottom-edge of the front panel of the dust jacket.