Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$11.54 + shipping
Description: Reprint (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), viii, 396pp. Text illustrations. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the spine. The binding is slightly dusty, there is a gift inscription, and a handful of pages have been opened clumsily; overall, this book is in good plus condition.
Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Lang, Andrew,. Books and bookmen.. Longmans, Green, & co, 1903.
Price: US$16.39 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1903. Hardcover. "A new impression. 177 p. 19 cm. Original cloth. Good, clean copy, slight foxing to endpapers, spine slightly sunned, gilt titled front and spine." Keywords: "Bibliomania. , Literary forgeries and mystifications. , Books.". Not a first edition copy. . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Price: US$24.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1903. No Edition Remarks. 174 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Colour illustrated plates. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front paste-down. Plates are bright and clear. Binding remains firm. binding remains reasonably firm. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$24.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good, no dust jacket. 1st American edition/1st printing. Hard Cover. 361pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Andrew Lang. Adventures Among Books. Longman's Green and Co, 1903.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd impression, very lean tight book Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New impression 1903. Frontispiece, plates and text illustrations throughout by H. J. Ford. All edges gilt. Black endpapers. Publishers gilt decorated blue cloth, spine very lightly faded and some very slight rubbing and marking. Generally a lovely bright clean copy. 400 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
ANDREW LANG. THE ANIMAL STORY BOOK. LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO, 1903.
Price: US$50.49 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO30114408: 1903. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 400 pages avec de nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte et hors texte. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
LANG, Andrew (edited by, 1844-1912). THE BOOK OF ROMANCE. Longmans Green and Co, 1903.
Price: US$51.31 + shipping
Description: Hardback. Condition : Very Good No dust jacket. With numerous plates, illustrations and endpapers decorated by H.J. Ford. Publisher's original red cloth boards with highly ornate gilt decoration to the front and spine; all page edges gilt. Gilt has worn off from front cover but otherwise a pretty decent copy.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Andrew Lang. The Snow Man and Other Stories. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, 1903.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's blue cloth with black illustration and titles, Stories based on the tales in the Fairy books by Andrew Lang/ A clean, unmarked copy with moderate edge rubbing. to covers.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$233.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1903. Octavo, xviii, 311, 4 (select booklist), 40 (Classified Catalogue) pages. Cloth lightly rubbed and slightly bumped; foot of the spine slightly snagged; WH. Smith Subscription Library plate on the front pastedown; a few leading margins slightly ragged due to inexpert opening of uncut edges; an excellent copy (internally fine, the library plate notwithstanding). 'This book deals only with the institutions of races certainly totemistic, and mainly with the Australian and North American tribes' (introduction). James Jasper Atkinson died in 1899; his 86-page contribution to the book has been edited and annotated by Lang. Provenance: Tom Austen Brown (1925-2009), solicitor, collector and philanthropist, with his pencilled ownership initials. 'In 2011 the University of Sydney used his substantial bequest to establish both the Tom Austen Brown Chair in Australian Anthropology, the first such chair at an Australian university, and the publication series Tom Austen Brown Studies in Australasian Archaeology' ('Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation', online).
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
The Crimson Fairy Book. Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1903.
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Covers rubbed and bumped. Four of the black and white illustrations have been coloured in by previous owner, but well done. fFlyleaf missing. Paper darkened with age. Front hinge cracked but book holding together well. Please see photos and ask for more photos if required.
Seller: Books & Cabinets, Market Rasen, United Kingdom
Lang, Andrew. The Crimson Fairy Book. Longmans, Green and Co., 1903.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Crimson Fairy Book published in 1903. A first edition with decorative gilt cover featuring a knight slaying a dragon. A beautiful book in Andrew Lang's Rainbow Fairy Book Series featuring folklore and children's stories collected from all over the world. These books combine to form beautiful sets. Spine worn, some minor splitting along front hinge.
Seller: Old Goat Books, Waterloo, ON, Canada
LANG, Andrew (ed.).. The Crimson Fairy Book.. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903, 1903.
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. This eighth instalment in the Fairy Books series contains 36 stories; they originate from Eastern Europe, Sicily, Scandinavia, and East Asia, and include "The Prince and the Dragon", "The Colony of Cats", and "The Magic Kettle". Henry Justice Ford's (1860-1941) artwork for the series "provided a benchmark in fantasy illustration" (Grolier). Though the Fairy Books are credited to Andrew Lang (1844-1912), he acknowledged in the preface to Lilac (1910) that they "have been almost wholly the work of Mrs [Leonora] Lang, who has translated and adapted them from the French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and other languages". Grolier Children's 100, 51. Octavo. Original crimson cloth, spine lettered and stamped in gilt with gnomish device, front cover blocked in gilt with angelic and knight-and-monster motifs, pink and blue illustrated endpapers, edges gilt. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 7 colour plates, 35 uncoloured engraved plates, further engravings in the text, all by H. J. Ford. Bookseller's ticket of Charles J. Sawyer, London, on front pastedown; contemporary gift inscription on half-title. Gilt and cloth notably bright, rubbing to extremities, faint foxing to prelims, white spotting to rear endpapers, text clean. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, foolscap 8vo (7 in x 4.75 in). pp. xi, (1), 371, (1), 8 color plates, 35 b/w plates, 10 b/w illustrations in the text. Full crimson calf gilt extra back by Bayntun with their pallet signature on the verso of the front free endpaper, back in six gilt paneled compartments, gilt black lettering piece in the second, gilt center and corner ornament in the rest, five gilt roll tooled raised bands, gilt double fillet borders on both sides, all edges gilt. Original gilt pictorial red cloth upper side and back-strip bound in at back. Fine clean bright copy. Sheets and plates clean, unmarked, complete. H10028 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping. All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges.
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.