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Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 160 pp, 7" H. Dark blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, silver lettering and decorations on front board, all edges silver. B&w illustrations. Contents: The History of (Dick) Whittington; The Goose-Girl; Trusty John; The Forty Thieves; The Master-Maid; Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Light separation between page gatherings at pages 32 & 33 - pages still firmly held in binding, light toning to pages, Christmas gift inscription from 1893 on front free endpaper, remnants of a small label and small ink number on front pastedown, front inside hinge paper is split - hinge is holding firmly, small splits in paper of rear inside hinge, corners have very small bumps, moderate wear at top/bottom of spine and at corners, light edge wear to boards, small liquid stain on front board.
Seller: Capricorn Books, Oakville, ON, Canada
Lang, Andrew. THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON AND OTHER STORIES. Longmans, Green & Co., 1892.
Price: US$53.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1892. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Based on the tales in the "Blue Fairy Book". Blue cloth, silver titles and vignettes. 160 pages. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Some slight rubbing to cover edges. Inscription in ink to front pastedown and ink name stamp (small) to front endpaper. Front joint is cracked at to 3". Foxing to contents else clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Lang, Andrew. The Blue Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, And Co, 1892.
Price: US$148.68 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original leather boards, ornate spine. Prior owners stamp inside front cover, title page, minor foxing.
Seller: The Little Shop of Books, Cootamundra, NSW, Australia
Andrew Lang. THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK. Longmans, Green & Co., London | New York, 1892.
Price: US$198.76 + shipping
Description: CLEAN 1892 first edition hardcover: fair to good.
Seller: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles, san diego, CA, U.S.A.
Lang, Andrew. THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK. Longmans, Green & Co., 1892.
Price: US$240.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1892. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Specially rebound in modern green leather binding, with raised bands to spine, title blocks, with gilt titles and decorations. Marbled endpapers. All edges are marbled. Numerous b/w illustrations. Wear and chipping to leather on spine and edges. Some scuffing. Front joint is partially cracked in a few places. Inscription in ink to free front endpaper. Soem foxing and browning. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Andrew Lang. The Green Fairy Book (1892). Longmans, Green, 1892.
Price: US$254.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book has been professionally rebound in half leather boards with just some discoloring to the spine. Contents is clean with light toning
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.36 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: ~Original blue cloth gilt, gilt lettering and vignette to spine; witch on broomstick riding across a night sky to front board. 8vo (13.6 x 18.6cm). All edges gilt. Hinges sound, original black endpapers fresh, unmarked, unfaded and uncracked at gutters. Tiny pen 'C' to half title at top inside corner, no other ownership marks. Frontis with tissue guard and vignette to t.p. Profusely illustrated with in-text and full page illustrations by H. J. Ford (who was to illustrate all Lang's 'coloured' fairy books) and G. P. Jacomb Hood. Tiny amount of foxing to text, mainly pp.180-83. Fifth edition of the first of Lang's classic fairy books, first published in 1889. A very attractive volume, very scarce in this fresh condition. ~Robust packaging. Overseas orders trackable on request. Size: 390pp
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Andrew Lang. The Green Fairy Book. Longmans Green & Co, 1892.
Price: US$382.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, A few small marks and stains on cover, a faded patch on bottom edge and what looks like some fine ink spots around the dragons tail, Corners a little bumped and worn, Top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, a slight lean to the spine, Gilt fore edges all round, a little worn but still bright, top edge a little dull, Internally in good condition, majority of pages crisp and clear, Stains on pages 143, 144, 145 & 146, Binding a little loose
Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United Kingdom
Lang, Andrew. The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, London,, 1892.
Price: US$382.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition First Printing1892 A Very Good copy with odd light spotting and one illustration crudely coloured in watercolour. Else very clean, square and fresh.
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
. THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK! Andrew Lang(FIRST EDITION 1892!) LARGE PAPER EDITION!1/150. , 1892.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK! First Edition. LARGE PAPER EDITION. 1 of only 150 copies. Printed in 1892. This is the LIMITED, LARGE PAPER EDITION of the FIRST EDITION. It is the most desirable form of this book. Rare and highly desirable. Still bound in the original Publisher's binding. THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK. Nicely illustrated by H.J. Ford. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., Printed in 1892. First edition, Large Paper edition, one of 150 numbered copies (#137) . This is a very large book. Large octavo. Very scarce large paper limited edition of Lang's famous and sought after Green Fairy collection . Bound in the publisher's white faux-vellum spine over paper covered boards. Page edges untrimmed. Previous owner's leather bookplate to the front pastedown, with just a hint of a ghost from the bookplate on the front flyleaf, which also has a vintage ink gift inscription. The boards are worn, with the corners showing, a small bump to the top edge of the rear board, and the front gutter just a bit split, with a short tear to the spine head and some mild soiling. Three pages with closed marginal tears not affecting text, with old tape over those closed tears. The binding has some splits and tears. Still this book is the most affordable copy available.There were only 150 copies of this LARGE PAPER EDITION of the FIRST EDITION ever made.
Seller: Merchants Rare Books, Moab, UT, U.S.A.
Andrew Lang. The Blue Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1892.
Price: US$503.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An early edition of the first of Andrew Lang's influential and colourful 'Fairy Books', this blue volume containing the tales of many eminent folklorists. The fifth edition, published three years after the first.Illustrated with a frontispiece, seven plates, and many in-text engravings.Collated, complete.'The Blue Fairy Book' is the first book in Lang's influential 'Fairy Book' series.This blue volume contains fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, Madame d'Aulnoy, Arabian Nights, and Norwegian folktales.Arguably the blue volume contains the best known fairy tales, such as 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood', 'Cinderella', 'Aladdin', 'Beauty and the Beast', 'Hansel and Gretel', 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 and George Percy Jacomb-Hood. Ford isa 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. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light rubbing to the joints and extremities, heavier to the rear joint, where a small amount of the cloth is lifting. Spine is a little faded. Some light marks to the boards and spine. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright with some scattered spots. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
LANG, Andrew (ed.).. The Green Fairy Book.. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892, 1892.
Price: US$573.32 + shipping
Description: First edition of the third title in the Fairy Books series. Its 42 stories includes the famous tales "Three Little Pigs" and "The Story of the Three Bears". 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". Loosely inserted is the publisher's four-page pamphlet advertising the Fairy Books. It includes two illustrations by Ford: they depict chivalric figures reading Lang's collections of romance, and fairy figures reading from his main fairy series. The pamphlet's text prints a poem by St John Lucas, entitled "The Fairy Books", and the list of titles is annotated by a former owner to mark their holdings. Grolier Children's 100, 51. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and stamped in gilt with device of a bee abducting Princess Rosanella, front cover with large gilt block depicting the fairy Gorgonzola riding a dragon, black coated endpapers, edges gilt. Frontispiece with tissue guard, 11 engraved plates, further engravings in the text, all by H. J. Ford. Publisher's 2-page ads bound at end. Spine darkened, rubbing to cloth, gilt unaffected and bright, gentle bowing to rear cover, sporadic foxing to leaves. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$637.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The third of Andrew Lang's Fairy Book series which he anticipated was probably going to be the last in the series, but went on to comprise twelve volumes. Illustrated by H J Ford. This is no. 99/150 large paper copies. The book has been newly rebound with a vellum spine and paper covered boards, similar to the original. Green leather label to spine. New end papers. Inside, small edge tear to bottom edge of frontispiece, title page untidily cut. Some occasional soiling to pages. 4to, xi + 366pp, 1334g
Seller: Begging Bowl Books, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Lang, Andrew. The Green Fairy Book Large Paper Edition. Longmans Green & Co, London, 1892.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large paper edition, #14 of 150 copies, small 4to, parchment over paper-covered boards. With numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford. Toning to board eges, wear to tip, interior fine.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Lang, Andrew. The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1892.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 366 pp. 8vo. Gray & cream paper-covered boards. Large paper edition, limited to 150 copies, of which this is numbered 73. Illustrations by H. J. Ford. Toning to spine strip, soiling and chipping to boards, heaviest at spine ends. Bookplate of WIlliam Henry Radcliffe Saunders, booksellers label of "Garton Freestone, Bookseller, 4, The Poultry, Nottingham" to fpd. Inscribed in ink by American book collector and Bronte scholar, Henry H. Bonnell (1859-1926) on rear free endpaper, with notation in pencil stating he acquired the book at Lipton Bros., Brumley, England on 11/5/1915.
Seller: Small Volume Books, Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Andrew Lang. The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1892.
Price: US$955.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of Andrew Lang's green volume in his colorfully fairy book series, an illustrated selection of entertaining fairy tales. The first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a frontispiece, twelve plates, and in-text engravings.Collated, complete.'The Green Fairy Book' is the third book in Lang's series, originally he intended it to be the last book in the series before further expanding to twelve volumes.This green volume contains stories from Spanish and Chinese traditions.Containing 'The Enchanted Watch', 'The Three Little Pigs', 'The Golden Mermaid', 'The Story of the Three Bears', 'The Magic Swan', 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.Two pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Very light rubbing to the joints. A few minor marks to the boards, mostly to the rear board. Front hinge is starting but firm, rear hinge is a little strained. Gift inscription to the verso of the front free endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright with the occasional scattered spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$993.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Small quarto, 366 pages, deckle-edges, boards, rebacked with paper, paper label on spine. Copy no. 18 of only 150 in large-paper. Black-and-white illustrations by H. J. Ford. This is the 3rd book in this series, and Lang promised no more in his Introduction; but that promise was to be broken many times. This volume includes "The Story of the Three Bears": this is the first variant of the tale in which the human visitor is an old woman. Here are other tales from French, Spanish, and Chinese sources. Here also is a different version of "The Three Little Pigs". It is known that J.R.R. Tolkien had read and commented upon this book, so he must have known "The Enchanted Watch" and "The Enchanted Ring", at least one of which may have given JRRT some ideas. First, Limited Edition & Large-Paper Edition.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Andrew Lang (1844-1912). The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Company, London, 1892.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xiv+866+[2 ad] pages with engraved frontispiece, 12 full page plates, vignette engraved illustrations in the text throughout. Small octavo (7 1/4f" x 5") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial decoration to front board and lower spine and gilt end pages. Fist edition, first impression of the third installment in the Fairy Book series. The third installment of Andrew Lang's widely read classics, The Green Fairy Book has been admired time and time again, enchanting readers with its carefully crafted prose and eclectic assortment of fairy tales. Originally published in 1892, this collection of celebrated tales has stood the test of time. Some of the famous stories included are: The Three Little Pigs The Three Bears The Blue Bird The Magic Swan The Enchanted Ring The Twelve Huntsmen And many more! This beautiful edition comes complete with the original illustrations by Golden Age Illustrator Henry J. Ford, and is the perfect gift to pass on these timeless classics to the next generation of readers and dreamers. Condition: New black coated end papers, light rubbing to ends, some intermittent internal soiling else very good to fine.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
LANG, Andrew (ed). The Green Fairy Book. Longmans, Green and Co, London and New York, 1892.
Price: US$2428.37 + shipping
Description: A handsome copy of the third of Lang's beautiful fairy books with illustrations by Henry J. Ford. The Scots author was an avid collector of fairy tales from around the world and many of the stories in this collection, particularly the classic French tales, are translated here into English for the first time. In the preface Lang writes, "The stories in all the books are borrowed from many countries; some are French, some German, some Russian, some Italian, some Scotish, some English, one Chinese. However much these nations differ about trifles, they all agree in liking fairy tales." One of the French stories collected in 'The Green Fairy Book' may have provided inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' and 'Lord of the Rings'. Issued in the year of Tolkien's birth, we know that Tolkien had read the 'The Enchanted Ring' in Lang's 'Green Fairy Book'. Tolkien makes reference to the collection in his dissertation, 'On Fairy-stories'. Telling the tale of a young man who is given a ring that can not only make him invisible but will make him "the most powerful of men" as long as he does not "make bad use of it", Lang attributes 'The Enchanted Ring' to the French writer and archbishop, François Fénelon (1651 - 1715). "To form a collection is to transform the individual items. Collections remove objects from their context and reassign identities according to imposed categorization and classification. One of the most striking attributes of the Fairy Book collection is its international scope. Multicultural fairy-tale collections are common in the twentieth century, but Lang's collection is the first and arguably one of the most extensive." Hines, Sara. "Collecting the Empire: Andrew Lang's Fairy Books (1889-1910)."Marvels & Tales, vol. 24, no. 1, 2010, pp. 39-56. Signed limited edition, one of 150 copies of which this is number 74, octavo, large paper edition, bound in full green crushed morocco by Stikeman, decorated with gilt, top edge gilt, 366 pages, numerous black & white illustrations throughout, full page illustrations, in fine condition.
Seller: Rare Illustrated Books, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia