Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's original light green hardback, in very good shape: firm and square, strong joints, just mildly rubbed. Contents tight and clean. No pen-marks and not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Size: Small 8vo (190mm x 130mm). Collation: pp. [xi] [ii] 14-204 [iii: ads] [i]. Illustrated throughout by Gordon Browne. A nice tidy copy.
Seller: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Description: Green cloth, gilt. No DW. xi, 204pp. Illustrated. Boards soiled, upper hinge exposed and tender. Half-title page browned with ownership inscriptions and staining to upper corners of prelims. Occasional light foxing to contents o/w VG-.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original apple green cloth stamped with gold lettering. Backstrip darkened and heel and foot of spine slightly bumped. Original patterned endpapers and half-title page browned as per usual with this title. Illustrated by Gordon Browne. A very scarce title in the original first edition, this is a nice collectabe copy in very good or better condition. CBEL p.747
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$108.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to. first edition (1893), 'presentation copy'. ?this out of series copy edition of 120 L.P? printing. foredges browned and endpapers foxed, small split to gutter fep, otherwise good in original half paper, brown cloth gilt, extremities worn, boards a little scuffed and grubby, top and tail spine worn, paper labels rubbed, spine browned with some repair along lower hinge. please see photos. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Tombland Bookshop, Norwich, NFLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, modern polished tan three quarter morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original cloth cover and spine bound in at end, bookplate, very fine.
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London, J.W. Arrowsmith & Simpkin, Marshall and Co., nd [1893]. Limited Edition. Hardback. A very good copy. Fairy tales set in Lang's own secondary world. Deluxe edition, this being number six. Spine scratched and heavily worn to the spine, a little scuffing here and there. Collector's plate of Charles B. Foote to the front pastedown. Endpapers foxed. Illustrations by Gordon Browne [11043, Hyraxia Books]. nd [1893]
Seller: Hyraxia Books. ABA, ILAB, Hutton Cranswick, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large paper presentation copy of this original tale of fairies by the fairy tale taste-maker of Victorian nurseries. Deluxe issue of Lang's sequel to PRINCE PRIGIO (1889), set in Lang's own created fairy-tale world, Pantouflia. Already scarce in this format, it is especially rare in nice condition. Quarto, 10'' x 7.5''. Original half vellum, brown cloth boards, printed paper spine labels. Butterfly-patterned endpapers. Illustrated by Browne with 12 full-page black-and-white images and further in-text images. "Presentation Copy" printed on early leaf. 204 pages. Ink gift inscription dated 1967 on verso of front fly leaf. Vellum somewhat toned. Faintest foxing to title page, else clean and bright.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.