Andrew Lang. Modern Mythology. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, NY & Bombay, 1897.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 212 pp + 32 p, the book is x-library with the followinng markings: shelf number on the lower spine, front endpapers have the card pocket and residue from the removal of the date due slip,solid, and the rules of the library are pasted inside the rear cover, I can find no other markings, the book is solid and the pages are clean with light browning, the covers are tight and have some edge wear and other spotting on the upper rear cover.
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Richmond, IN, U.S.A.
Andrew Lang. Modern Mythology. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897.
Price: US$32.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book in G+ condition, no dj; dark green pebbled cloth boards clean, block lightly starting at pg.xiv yet binding remains solid and tight, owner bookplate to front pastedown, text and pages remain clean.
Seller: Turning of the Tide Books, SEATTLE, WA, U.S.A.
Andrew Lang. Pickle the Sky. Longmans Green & Co, 1897.
Price: US$36.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1897. No Edition Remarks. 342 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Underlining to occasional pages. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with remnants and inserts. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Book has noticeable forward lean. Small dewy label taped to bottom spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Lang, Andrew (Ed). The Yellow Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York / Bombay, 1897.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 321 pages (complete). An joyfully owned copy. The half-title page has a gift-inscription, and a pleasing wood-cut ex-libris plate (Hilary Snell). One of these previous owners were obviously dismayed at the absence of coloured illustrations and set about rectifying this deficiency. Consequently several of the illustrations were coloured in by various media. Nonetheless, they bring some character to the book. Blind pressed art deco style decoration on the front board. The spine has been repaired. The boards are worn, scuffed, marked all about from handling and ownership. The boards and spine are steady and sure. The end papers are worn about the edges. The contents have evidence of avid use throughout. The pages have marks from handling and use. There are occasional splashes of foxing. Otherwise, the pages are tight, clean and clear, convivial, generous and still keen. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$67.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1897. [ Selections from the Poets]. Hardback. Illustrated by Alfred Parsons; frontispiece (tissue-guarded) and eight other full-page plates. Decorative initials and head-pieces. Extensive Introduction by Andrew Lang. Original light-green smooth cloth; decorative art nouveau-style binding in gilt to spine and cover. All edges gilt. Original black end-papers. Neat owner name; no internal markings. Sporadic foxing. Bright, tight and clean. Tight copy; minor ear and dulling to spine. VERY GOOD. (xxxii), 294 pages. Referenced by: Cornell Wordsworth Collection 307. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, C.H.S., Cumberland, D.L.S. Everyman, G. K. C., Keswick, Inklings, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$97.47 + shipping
Description: A scarce edition of this collection of poetry by William Wordsworth by Andrew Lang, in beautiful decorative cloth. Scarce edition of Wordsworth Selections from the Poets by Andrew Lang in the original publisher's blue cloth binding.With illustrations by Alfred Parsons. With ten monochrome plates and illustrations throughout the text. Collated, complete.Bound with beautiful decorative gilt to the front board and spine.Prior owners ink inscriptions to the first few endpapers, one from 1897 and another from 1975. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, very smart. There is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Prior owners ink inscriptions to the first few endpapers, one from 1897 and another from 1975.Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with some light spotting to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Lang, Andrew (ed.). The Pink Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1897.
Price: US$162.44 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover (no jacket as issued, with fairies and herald on clouds above sun in gilt on front board). Exterior slightly discoloured; spine very faded; edgeworn, with bumped extremities. Item is slightly cocked. Label and one or two marks on front pastedown and FEP; small tear on BEP. Gift dedication penned on first blank. Binding brittle at start. Early pages are bumped at upper corners, creased, foxed and marked, with evidence of liquid staining; visible to a much lesser extent on most pages following, with a little further foxing. All content remains clear. TS
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
LANG, Andrew. The Blue Fairy Book. Longmans, Green & Co, 1897.
Price: US$370.37 + shipping
Description: Eighth edition. Blue boards with gilt decoration & titles. Topedge gilt. A near fine copy with light edgewear to extremities. A few small marks & a line of tiny indentations to rear board. Very bright unrubbed gilt. Internally very clean indeed with no inscriptions. The endpapers are original and unsplit. A really lovely copy. The first of Andrew Lang's coloured fairy books.
Seller: Julian Roberts Fine Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Andrew Lang. The Pink Fairy Book. New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1897.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. 1st American Edition, 8vo, Illustrated by H. J. Ford. Pink gilt pictorial cloth. Spine fade. Hinges split. Pages lightly tanned and clean. The word "read" in pencil handwriting at the beginning of several stories.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Andrew Lang. The Pink Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, New York, and Bombay, 1897.
Price: US$376.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good copy of the 1st edition in the original pink decorative cloth binding with all page edges gilt. With numerous black and white illustrations by H J Ford. The binding has delicate gilt illustration to the front board which is bright. The spine is very sunned and faded. It has been rebacked with the original spine relaid onto matching cloth, so the book is sound and tight. The back board is clean with some faint marking and fading close to the spine. Corners with light wear. All page edges gilted. Contents are complete and clean. There is toning to the page margins, particularly the top margin and a persistent small stain at the top page edge from circa p170 to 257. The contents page has had the contents marked off. There are 2 flattened creases to the rear free endpaper and a number of top page corners have been turned over at one time, leaving light flattened creases. Occasional light marking otherwise
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Full red morocco leather, gilt, rebound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with gilt dentelles.A very pleasing binding. First edition. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers show some transfer from the fold-overs and interior foxed. Contains 6 plates. xvi, 342, 32pp of publisher's adverts, followed by the original cloth binding. This book revealed that Pickle the spy was Alastair Ruadh MacDonell, which had been a secret since his release from the Tower of London in 1747. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Lang, Andrew. THE BOOK OF DREAMS AND GHOSTS. Longmans, Green & Co, London, United Kingdom, 1897.
Price: US$417.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition, First Printing. 8vo Pp. 301., Catalogue to rear dated May 1897 as called for. Original illustrated designed boards, decorated in Blue, Green and Gray, gilt to top edge of text block. With 1897 to the title page and no statement of 'New Edition', Slight dulling to spine, very mild rubbing to the extremities. A touch of spotting to end pages else Clean pages, owner bookplate to verso of front end page. A scarce book.
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
Price: US$439.92 + shipping
Description: Previous owner's inscription. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorative cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: Fairy book series. Physical description: viii, 360, 3p. : ill. ; 21cm. Subjects: Fairy tales. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Lang, Andrew. THE BOOK OF DREAMS AND GHOSTS. Longmans, London, New York and Bombay, 1897.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-xv [xvi] 1-301 [302: blank] [303: printer's colophon] [304: blank] + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "5/97" at base of page 32 inserted at rear, flyleaf at front, original pictorial blue cloth, front panel stamped in gray and black, spine panel stamped in black and gold, t.e.g., other edges rough trimmed. First edition. ". Lang linked psychical research with his anthropological studies . [this book] set out mainly to tell in strictly historical form, all the best attested psychical stories, from classical times to contemporary savage parallels imparted to Lang by his cousin James Jasper Atkinson who had emigrated to the South Seas." - Roger Lancelyn Green, Andrew Lang, p. 72. Topics include crystal visions, hallucinations, wraiths, modern Hauntings, Icelandic ghosts and mixed bogies. Short closed tear in the fore-edge margin of pages 191/192, Text block lightly tanned at edges (printed on paper stock prone to age-darkening, here less than usual), endpapers just a bit tanned, a nearly fine copy with tight text block and clean binding. A lovely copy. (#171703)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$484.00 + shipping
Description: Previous owner's inscription. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorative cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: Fairy book series. Physical description: viii, 360, 3p. : ill. ; 21cm. Subjects: Fairy tales. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
LANG, Andrew. The Pink Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co, 1897.
Price: US$599.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1897 1st ed Pink Fairy Book Snow Queen Andrew Lang Illustrated DISNEY Frozen Once upon a time Andrew Langs Fairy Books are a series of children stories that were published in a collection of colors. The collection includes nearly 800 stories both true and fiction all of which feature impressive illustrations throughout. The Pink Fairy Book includes 41 stories that tell of goblins, trolls, mermaids, and witches from the folklore of Japanese, Scandinavian, and Sicilian tales! However, the most famous story from this book is The Snow Queen which is based on Hans Christian Andersens original story the basis for Disneys animated feature Frozen! Item number: #16548 Price: $599 LANG, Andrew The Pink Fairy Book London; New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages viii, [2], 360 Includes 34 full-page engravings as well as many in-text illustrations of H.J. Ford Language: English Binding: Hardcover; secure Decorative pink cloth Size: ~7.25in X 5.25in (18.5cm x 13.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 16548 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Andrew Lang. The Pink Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1897.
Price: US$643.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first edition of Andrew Lang's 'Pink Fairy Book', a lavishly illustrated work of folklore tales from Japan, Scandinavia, and Sicily. The first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignettetitle page, thirty-three full paged engravings, and thirty-five in-text engravings.Collated, complete.'The Pink Fairy Book' is Lang's fifth book in his popular 'Fairy Books' series.The pink volume contains stories from Sicilian, Scandinavian, and Japanese folklore.Containing 'The Snow-Queen', 'The Cunning Shoemaker', 'The Merry Wives', 'The Sprig of Rosemary', 'The House in the Wood', 'The Goblin and the Grocer', and more.Andrew Lang is best known for these collections of fairy tales, and was an avid collector of folk and fairy tales. He was a Scottish poet, novelist, and literary critic.Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, a noted English illustrator who is best known for his beautiful illustrations for Lang's works. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Spine is a little faded. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards. Tears to the head and tail of the rear joint. Hinges are strained. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional scattered spot. Closed tear to the head of page 269/270. Page 49/50 is detached but present. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: ix, 360 pp. With numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford. 8vo, publisher's pink gilt-decorated cloth; a.e.g. First US edition. Text block over-opened a several points; spine a little darkened; light wear to extremities.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
LANG, Andrew. THE PINK FAIRY BOOK. Longmans Green & Co, 1897.
Price: US$1072.13 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original pink cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. All edges gilt. A near fine copy, with some fading to the spine as usual, but remarkably bright upper cover. Many black and white illustrations by H. J. Ford. Stories for this volume are all traditional fairy tales from around the world. There are stories of European origin as well as Japanese and African legends. Tales include: The Snow-Queen; The Flying Trunk and How the Dragon was Tricked. The fifth of the Lang fairy books.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom