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The Crimson Fairy Book. Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1903.
Price: US$384.98 + 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$834.12 + 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.