Andrew Lang. Prince Darling and Other Stories: Based on the Tales in the 'Blue Fairy Book'. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1890.

Price: US$1537.04 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The vanishingly scarce first edition of this collection of short stories taken from Andrew Lang's 'Blue Fairy Book'. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this work, published the year after the 'Blue Fairy Book' was published.From the 'Longman's Supplementary Readers' series.Five short stories taken from the larger 'Blue Fairy Book', one of many such collections of fairy tales and short stories edited by Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best remembered as a collector of folk and fairy tales.Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous vignette illustrations throughout by H. J. Ford and G. P. Jacomb Hood.With a former owner's pencil inscription to the title page head.A lovely copy of a very scarce volume. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with back strip age toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with instances of spotting and foxing throughout. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom