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Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: Longmans, Green, And Co. London. 1904. First Edition. Hardback. No DW. Illustrated brown cloth, gilt extra. All edges gilt. Colour frontis. + 7 colour plates, 3 are loose, b/w plates plus illustrations within text. Covers are marked and worn, inner hinge cracked and contents slightly shaken but still sound. No tissue guards. Lacks rear endpaper and rear hinge very opened. Neat ownership name. Spotting and foxing to pages though generally a clean copy.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Lang, Andrew. The Brown Fairy Book First edition.. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1904.
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Description: First edition, 1904. Hardback. 8vo. [i - vii], viii - xiii, [1], 2 - 350pp. Brown boards with gilt design to upper board and gilt to spine. All edge gilt. Decorated end papers. No jacket. Thirty-two tales in this collection edited by Andrew lang. Illustrated b y H. J. Ford (Henry Justice Ford). Eight full page colour illustrations, including frontispiece which has a tissue guard, twenty-two full page black & white illustrations and twenty black & white illustrations in the text. Book in good condition. Extremities of spine a little rubbed and spine cover lightly creased. Previous owner's name to front fly leaf. Occasional crack to gutter but text block firmly bound. A few slight marks here and there and a couple of minor creases to page corners.
Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom
Lang Andrew. The Brown Fairy Book. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904.
Price: US$243.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown covers with gilt decoration of girl with book surounded by fairies elves etc.Gilt titles to spine which shows some shelf wear. all edges gilt. Gilt still bright all round.Slight bumps to corners. rear binding is a little weak.eps. brown with silver illustrations. Tissue guarded frontispiece plus 7 other full page colour plates. 22 full page b/w illustrations plus 20 illustrations in text. No inscriptions of colouring - all in all a very good clean copy.
Seller: Valuable Volumes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Lang, Andrew. The Brown Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown cloth over boards. Decorative gilt on cover and spine. A small section on front board has some rubbing. Corner bumped. All edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. FFEP has a light creased. Wonderful color plates and frontis with additional b/w illustrations throughout. Overall, just slight wear.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Andrew Lang. The Brown Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1904.
Price: US$340.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first edition of the ninth of Andrew Lang's fairy books, an illustrated collection of tales from around the world. The first edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven colour plates, twenty-two monochrome plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, lacking the front endpaper. All illustrations are present.The ninth book in Andrew Lang's popular 'Fairy Books' series. This brown volume contains stories from the American Indians, Australian Bushmen, African Kaffirs, and from Persia, Brazil, India, and Lapland.Containing 'What the Rose did to the Cypress', 'How Geirald the Coward was Punished', 'Habogi', 'The Mermaid and the Boy', 'The Elf Maiden', 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, with light rubbing and a few minor marks to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Hinges are strained. Lacking the front endpaper. Internally, binding is strained in places. Pages are bright and clean with the occasional light handling mark. Plate facing page 8 has been hand-coloured by a prior owner. Ink mark to page 100 and the facing page. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Andrew Lang (Edited by).. THE BROWN FAIRY BOOK.. , 1904.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Description: 1904, London, Longmans, Green, and Co., first edition, ppxiii + 350, colour and black and white illustrations by H. J. Ford, brown cloth, pictorial gilt, all edges gilt. The first editions of the Fairy Books are becoming quite uncommon. Covers a little rubbed, binding a trifle loose, otherwise good.
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: xiii, 350 pp. With eight coloured plates and numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford. 8vo, publisher's brown gilt pictorial cloth; a.e.g. First edition. A clean, tight and sound copy with slight use to the cloth at extremities.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Andrew Lang. The Brown Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1904.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very smart first edition of Andrew Lang's ninth fairy book, the brown volume containing a variety of tales from around the world. The first edition of this work.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven colour plates, twenty-two monochrome plates, and vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.The ninth book in Andrew Lang's popular 'Fairy Books' series. This brown volume contains stories from the American Indians, Australian Bushmen, African Kaffirs, and from Persia, Brazil, India, and Lapland.Containing 'What the Rose did to the Cypress', 'How Geirald the Coward was Punished', 'Habogi', 'The Mermaid and the Boy', 'The Elf Maiden', 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.With the inscription 'To dear little May from Aunt Lillian', dated October 1904, to a front blank. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, a noted English illustrator who is best known for his beautiful illustrations for Lang's works. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with rubbing to rear joint. Small closed tear in cloth to tail of front joint. Tail of front hinge strained, but firmly held. Rear hinge strained and a touch tender. Inscription to a front blank. Internally, binding lightly strained. Pages bright, with the odd handling mark and instances of spotting throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Andrew Lang. The Brown Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1904.
Price: US$494.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of Andrew Lang's ninth fairy book, the brown volume containing a variety of tales from around the world. The first edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, six colour plates, twenty-two monochrome plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, bound without the colour plate facing page 128.The ninth book in Andrew Lang's popular 'Fairy Books' series. This brown volume contains stories from the American Indians, Australian Bushmen, African Kaffirs, and from Persia, Brazil, India, and Lapland.Containing 'What the Rose did to the Cypress', 'How Geirald the Coward was Punished', 'Habogi', 'The Mermaid and the Boy', 'The Elf Maiden', 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, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light rubbing to the joints, spine, and extremities. Gilt to the front board is very lightly rubbed. A couple of small marks to the boards. Very small tear to the rear joint. Spots to the endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Collated, bound without one plate. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
LANG, Andrew (ed.).. The Brown Fairy Book.. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904, 1904.
Price: US$513.31 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of the ninth title in the Fairy Books series, gathering tales from North America, Brazil, Australia, Africa, Persia, India, Lapland, and the Pacific Islands. Among its 32 stories are "The Wicked Wolverine", "The Mermaid and the Boy", and "How Some Wild Animals became Tame ones". 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 brown cloth, spine lettered and stamped with fairy devices in gilt, front cover elaborately blocked in gilt with fairy figures encircling a child upon a background of stars and vines, brown coated endpapers with illustrations in silver, edges gilt. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 7 colour plates, 22 uncoloured engraved plates, further engravings in the text, all by H. J. Ford. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. Bumps to spine ends, a little rubbing but gilt bright overall, foxing to outer leaves, otherwise clean. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
LANG, Andrew (ed.). The Brown Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, London, 1904.
Price: US$513.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ~First edition of the ninth of Lang's 12 'colour' Fairy Books. Original brown cloth, elaborate gilt illus to front board; gilt lettering and vignette to spine. A little scarcely visible damp-spotting to rear board (none to front, where gilt is bright & fresh); mild dulling and rubbing to spine. Mild wear to board and spine edges; very slight wear to board corners. 8vo (13.2 x 18.7cm). All edges gilt. Hinges sound. Brown endpapers illus in silver. Rear endpaper starting at gutter, and with small loss to inside rear board (circle of c. 0.8cm), not affecting image. Pencil annot. to blank front endpage. Profusely illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, the illustrator for all Lang's Fairy Books. 8 colour plates, inc. frontis with tissue guard, 22 full-page b/w plates and 20 in-text illus. Occasional very light scattered foxing; text block and illus generally clear. ~Robust packaging. Overseas orders trackable on request. Size: xii, 350pp
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Lang, Andrew. The Brown Fairy Book. Longmans, Green and Co, 1904.
Price: US$513.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown calf with gilt design and lettering. 5 raised bands. Edge rubbed. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. With 8 coloured plates and numerous illustrations. A nice copy approaching 'Near fine' status. Item Type: Book. No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Ford, H. J. Category: Children; Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 016343.
Seller: H4o Books, Market Rasen, LINCS, United Kingdom
LANG, Andrew.. The Brown Fairy Book.. Longmans, Green, London., 1904.
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp xiii, 350. Eight coloured plates and numerous black-and-white drawings by H.J. Ford. Bound by Brian Frost of Bath in full brown leather, raised bands, gilt decorated spine, gilt rules, outer and inner gilt dentelles, red and green title- and author-labels. All edges gilt. Batik endpapers. The original gilt decorated upper covers and spine have been preserved and mounted at the rear of the book. Fine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Original brown cloth elaborately illustrated in gilt, titles to the spine in gilt. All edges gilt. Endpapers illustrated in silver. With eight colour plates and black and white illustrations throughout by H. J. Ford. A very good copy, the binding firm, the gilt bright, the extremities a little rubbed, the corners and spine tips with very slight bumping. The contents, with some light spotting to the prelims and occasionally to the margins, are otherwise clean and without stamps or inscriptions. The plates are complete and in fine condition. The 9th of Andrew Lang's 12 Fairy Books. Comprising What the Rose did to the Cypress, Ball-Carrier and the Bad One, How Ball-Carrier finished his Task, The Bunyip, Father Grumbler, The Story of the Yara, The Cunning Hare, The Turtle and his Bride, How Geirald the Coward was Punished, Habogi, How the Little Brother set Free his Big Brothers, The Sacred Milk of Koumongoe, The Wicked Wolverine, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter, The Mermaid and the Boy, Pivi and Kabo, The Elf Maiden, How Some Wild Animals became Tame Ones, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter, The Enchanted Head, The Sister of the Sun, The Prince and the Three Fates, The Fox and the Lapp, Kisa the Cat, The Lion and the Cat, Which was the Foolishest?, Asmund and Signy, Rübezahl, Story of the King who would be Stronger than Fate, Story of Wali Dad the Simple-hearted, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey, and The Knights of the Fish. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
LANG, Andrew. The Brown fairy book. Longmans, Green, and Co, 1904.
Price: US$599.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1904 1st ed Brown Fairy Book Andrew Lang Mermaids Elves Native American Indians Once upon a time Andrew Lang s 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. The Brown Fairy Book contains stories of Native American Indians, Australian Bushmen, African Kaffirs, and other stories from Persia, Lapland, and India. While most of the stories have truths of these cultures, the stories include portrayals of elves, mermaids, and wicked wolverines! See below for a full list of the titles. Item number: #40101 Price: $599 LANG, Andrew The Brown fairy book London; New York : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete o xiii, [1], 350 o 49 illustrations 7 color-plates 22 full-page plates 20 in-text Language: English Binding: Hardcover; secure o Brown decorative cloth Size: ~7.25in X 5.25in (18.5cm x 13cm) 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! 40101 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Lang, Andrew. The Brown Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Company, 1904.
Price: US$599.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. No DJ. Decorated Binding; design not attributed. Very light wear to the covers and spine. Illustrated with eight full-page color plates, 23 full-page plates in black-and-white, and 20 drawings in the text by Henry J. FORD. Christmas gift inscription (dated 1907) 0n the FFEP; otherwise, unmarked pages. AEG. Protected in an archival wrapper. This work has been reissued many times in many formats, but nothing compares with owning a copy in its original first edition state. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Will insure at buyer's expense, if requested. Condition: Near Fine
Seller: Ironwood Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Lang, Andrew. The Brown Fairy Book. London Longmans, Green and Co. 1904, 1904.
Price: US$673.71 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Published in London by Longmans, Green and Co. This is a near fine copy. The brown boards, featuring the beautiful and profuse gilt illustrations, are slightly loose at the hinge (though intact). There is some mild bumping to the spine tips and at the corners. The silver gilt endpapers are bright and clean. The internals are also clean, as are the gilt text blocks. Overall, this copy is free from previous owners ink and is in near fine condition. The ninth of twelve fairy books by the author.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
LANG, Andrew (ed.).. The Brown Fairy Book.. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904, 1904.
Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; a stunning copy of the ninth title in the Fairy Books series, gathering tales from North America, Brazil, Australia, Africa, Persia, India, Lapland, and the Pacific Islands. Among its 32 stories are "The Wicked Wolverine", "The Mermaid and the Boy", and "How Some Wild Animals became Tame ones". 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 brown cloth, spine lettered and stamped with fairy devices in gilt, front cover elaborately blocked in gilt with fairy figures encircling a child upon a background of stars and vines, brown coated endpapers with illustrations in silver, edges gilt. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 7 colour plates, 22 uncoloured engraved plates, further engravings in the text, all by H. J. Ford. Gilt radiant, bump to spine ends, contents fresh. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Lang (Andrew), Editor. THE BROWN FAIRY BOOK. Longmans Green & Co, London, 1904.
Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: xiii, 350pp, black & white illustrations, some full page, with 8 coloured plates, frontispiece with tissue guard, brown endpapers with silver drawings, split to front endpaper along hinge, all edges gilt, original gilt-decorated brown cloth. Bright, fresh copies of this popular series are seldom found. Size: 7.5 x 5 Inches
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom