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Lang, Andrew (editor). The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, and Other Stories, Based on the Tales in the 'Blue Fairy Book'. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1901.

Price: US$30.33 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 18mo. New impression. Orig. blue cloth, silver lettering. All edges silver. 111 pp. Covers and extremities rubbed, light wear to corners, some damp staining to boards. Cracking to inner hinges in a few places, some general soiling to interior.

Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada

Andrew Lang. The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood and other stories based on the tales in the Blue Fairy Book. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1901.

Price: US$35.57 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 111 pp bw illustrations, blue cloth with silver titles and illustration, black endpapers. Cloth grubby and marked , nick to rear edge of spine, spine ends and corners scuffed, prize label to endpapers, pages tanned with some spots and marks, a reading copy

Seller: Your Book Soon, Stroud, GLOS, United Kingdom

Lang, Andrew [editor],. The Violet Fairy Book [Collection of plates]. Published by Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1901.

Price: US$58.48 + shipping

Description: , xii, 388 pages, 8 coloured plates, 24 black and white plates, in text illustrations First Edition , disbound, boards with tape attached, spine creased, front free endpaper torn, missing p159-164, p171-176 and 2 black and white plates, one coloured plate with tape, some foxing and marks to pages, some pages taped, poor condition , blue cloth with gilt stamped illustrations to front and spine, coloured endpapers, full gilt edges , 19 cm x`13 cm Hardback ISBN:

Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom

Lang, Andrew. MAGIC AND RELIGION. Longmans, Green, and Co, 1901.

Price: US$248.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo, navy gloth, gilt stamped spine lettering, ritual symbols stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, deckled fore and tail. Faint rubbing to extremities, tail of spine just nudged, front hinge just starting but still tight, very clean and sharp otherwise. A collection of anthropological and folkloric essays engaging various theories of religion, ritual, magic, and myth. Throughout the author of the Blue and various other colored Fairy Books evinces a high regard for "primitive" religious expressions. "The theory is that perhaps the earliest traceable form of religion was relatively high, and that it was inevitably lowered in tone during the process of social evolution."

Seller: Arches Bookhouse, Portland, OR, U.S.A.