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Andrew Lang. The Lilac Fairy Book. London Longmans, Green and Co 1910, 1910.
Price: US$243.58 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition. Ivory cloth boards with very faded gilt illustration on front cover. Gilt lettering and illustration to spine, which is faded and bumped top and bottom. Boards have stains on front and back. Pages are gilt edged and age tanned with occasional foxing. Fly leaf is stained. Charming black and white illustrations by Ford and six colour plates. Hinges are beginning to crack and front endpaper may be missing. Not in the best condition, but nevertheless a lovely book.
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Andrew Lang, editor; H. J. Ford, illustrator. The Lilac Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xv, 369 pp. with six colour plates. No ads. Hardcover, bound in gilt-stamped cloth, all edges gilt. The edges rubbed; a bit faded along the spine and frayed at the spine ends; minor blemishes/scuff marks on the boards. Prior owner name front pastedown. A few modest smudges within the text block.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Andrew Lang. The Lilac Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1910.
Price: US$634.58 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Andrew Lang's lilac collection of fairy tales, a lovely volume of his popular series, complete with colourful plates. The sought after first edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, a vignette title page, five colour plates, twenty monochrome plates, and twenty-six in-text engravings.Two pages of adverts to the rear.Collated, complete.'The Lilac Fairy Book' is Lang's twelfth and last book in his successful 'Fairy Book' series.The lilac volume contains stories from Portugal, Ireland, andWales.Containing 'The Shifty Lad', 'The False Prince and the True', 'The King of the Waterfalls', 'The One-Handed Girl', 'The Winning of Olwen', 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. Cloth is a little discoloured and marked, as is usual with this lilac volume, though the gilt to the front board is still bright. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Small red mark to the rear board. Hinges are starting but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the occasional scattered spot. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Lang, Andrew [editor]. The Lilac Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No jacket. Purple cloth with gilt spine titling and decoration, elaborate illustration blind-stamped to front. Cloth is still bright and vivid, with very slight fading along fore-edges and outer hinges; a few stains here and there; edgeworn, with rubbing to bottom edges and spots of fraying to spine ends and fore-edge corners. Spine tilt forward. Binding intact, cracked at pages 256 and 336. All plates present. Gift inscription dated Christmas of 1915 neatly inked to FFEP. Interior else clean, pages lightly toned, text unmarked.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Andrew Lang. The Lilac Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1910.
Price: US$762.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Andrew Lang's lilac collection of fairy tales, a lovely volume of his popular series, complete with colourful plates. The first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, a vignette title page, five colour plates, twenty monochrome plates, and twenty-six in-text engravings.Two pages of adverts to the rear.Collated, complete.'The Lilac Fairy Book' is Lang's twelfth and last book in his successful 'Fairy Book' series.The lilac volume contains stories from Portugal, Ireland, andWales.Containing 'The Shifty Lad', 'The False Prince and the True', 'The King of the Waterfalls', 'The One-Handed Girl', 'The Winning of Olwen', 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 discoloured. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Some light marks to the boards, a little heavier to the rear board. Tear to the head of the rear joint. Faded ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the occasional scattered spot and handling marks. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$11000.00 + shipping
Description: Complete set of 12 Volumes of Andrew Lang's Rainbow Fairy Books. All First Editions, First Printings. Color and black and white illustrations throughout, complete. Cloth boards with elaborate gilt decorations. All edges gilt. Spine and front panel of dust jacket to Orange Fairy Book tipped in at front. Boards generally show light edgewear, with brief exposure to extremities of a few volumes, most heavily to the Pink Fairy Book. Light sunning to spines with heavier rubbing to Crimson and Pink volumes. Binding to Pink volume a bit shaken but holding. All other bindings sound. Ownership inscriptions to preliminaries of many, and a bookplate designed by Frances MacDonald to preliminaries of Violet book. Near Fine. The series was principally the work of Leonora Blanche Alleyne, wife of Andrew Lang. Lang himself consistently gave her credit and mentions as much in many of the prefaces in the series, though she is not mentioned on the spine or title pages of many of the volumes. Includes 798 stories drawing from mythology and folklore from all around the world.
Seller: Walnut Street Paper, LLC, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.