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Price: US$18.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1909. No Edition Remarks. 347 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut pages. Black and white illustrated plates. Light thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and creasing to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: From the pen of the wonderful story-teller, the man who gave us all the wonderful fairy stories, the Red Book, The Green book etc. Well written and by no means a children's book.
Seller: Black Box Books, ASHFORD, United Kingdom
Mrs Lang, edited by Andrew Lang. The Red Book of Heroes. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1909.
Price: US$26.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Inspirational biographies for the Edwardian child. Red cloth worn and marked, with illustrative decorations in gold, gilt all round, illustrative eps rather marked, no inscriptions, tissue-guarded frontis, coloured plates and b/w illustrations by A Wallis Mills, tight and sound, good.
Seller: Byre Books, Newton Stewart, United Kingdom
Lang, Mrs., ed by Andrew Lang. The Red Book of Heroes. Longmans Greem & Co., 1909.
Price: US$39.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in publisher's blind stamped red cloth, with gilt spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated end papers. With 8 color plates (including frontispiece), full-page and other illustrations. xiv, 368 pages. Text clean, bright and crisp. Andrew Lang was a prolific Scottish scholar, folklorist, anthropologist, historian, and classic children's author. He is best known for his popular 12 volume fairy books. His work, "represents the first maturing of a scientific interest in the folk narrative as a means of discovering the nature of primeval man and the details of his unrecorded history. "The student of this lore," he wrote, "can look back and see the long trodden way behind him, the winding tracks through marsh and forest and ever burning sands" (Green 1946, p. 37). His contention that the myth is a "historical" document, useful for the revelation of a cultural or value system, became so generally accepted as an assumption in anthropology that his originality is often forgotten." - Jacob W. Gruber, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2008.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Lang, Mrs. Edited by Andrew Lang.. THE RED BOOK OF HEROES. Longmans, Green and Co., New York, 1909.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, red cloth covers with elaborate gilt design on top cover and spine, all edges gilt. xiv + 368 pages, 2 pages of publisher's ads in front. Illustrated by A. Welles Mills with eight color plates and many black and white plates and in-text illustrations. Former owner gift inscription on first blank. Illustrated endpapers The heroes written about are: Florence Nightingale, John Howard, Hannibal, Father Damien, The Constant Prince, Montrose, Havelock, Sir Thomas More,The Little Abbess, Gordon,Theodosius, Palissy. Spine a bit rubbed, one rear cover bumped. Rear hinge cracked, but holding.Studio.
Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.
Lang, Mrs. & Lang, Andrew. THE RED BOOK OF HEROES. Longmans, Green & Co., 1909.
Price: US$53.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st 1909. Good condition with no wrapper. Edited by Andrew Lang. Red covers with extensive gilt decorations. Containing 8 colour plates and numerous illustrations. 368 pages. All edges gilt. Bumping and wear to cover edges/corners. Some fading and what appears to be damp marking to covers. Ink stamp to front endpaper. Small name in ink to front pastedown. Joints are a bit cracked. Some browning. Pencil underling in places. Margin marks. Page corner creasing; a few small margin tears. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Selected stories from the Red, Crimson, Grey, and Violet Fairy books, 14 in all. Hardcover, pretty gilt-decorated spine. Light wear to book, paper tanned, hint of foxing; ink note on free endsheet. Text clean; 253 pages + 2 pages ads; color frontispiece, 31 line drawings, as called for. Size: Duodecimo
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.55 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. [xiv], including 3 pp. publisher's advertisements and series lists + 368 pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, with gilt block of General Gordon on front board. All edges gilt. Spine a little sunned with some wear at head and tail; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 8 colour plates including frontispiece, 17 full page plates and 23 drawings in text and by title page vignette. Pictorial endpapers. A companion volume to the series of twelve fairy books with titles named after different colours, written by Andrew Lang (1844-1912), Scottish poet and novelist. This title relate the stories of twelve heroes of history, including Florence Nightingale, Hannibal, Father Damien, dom Fernando, Prince of Portugal, the Marquis of Montrose, the Little Abbess, Angelique of Port Royal, General Gordon and the Emperor Theodosius. A handsomely bound and illustrated volume. CHILDRENS FAIRIES LIT. FICTION CHILDREN'S 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED FINE BINDING CHILDRENS
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: xv, 368 pp. Publisher's original elaborately gilt-decorated red cloth. All edges gilt. Gilt boards bright. Internally clean. With eight full-page colour plates and numerous b&w illustrations by A. Wallis Mills. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Lang, Mrs.; Andrew Lang, editor. THE RED BOOK OF HEROES. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, 1909.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Red cloth with gilt pictorial cover. Eight colored plates and numerous illustrations by A. Wallis Mills. Very good with spine ends beginning to fray but elaborate gilt illustration and lettering on spine and front cover still bright.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
LANG, ANDREW, ed. The red book of heroes. Longmans, Green, and Co, New York, 1909.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, 12mo, pp. xv, [1], 368; 8 color plates and numerous illustrations by A. Wallis Mills; leaning just slightly and the merest hint of rubbing to edges, front free endpaper excised; a good, sound, attractive copy in original red cloth, upper cover and spine pictorially gilt, a.e.g.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A wonderful first edition copy of this biographical book for children, which contains information on various historical 'heroes', with vivid colour plates by A. Wallis Mills. First Edition.Illustrations include one colour frontispiece, six colour plates, seventeen black-and-white plates, and twenty-three in-text illustrations. These were all drawn by Arthur Wallis Mills (1878-1940), a British artist who often contributed to 'Punch Magazine', and illustrated different works by Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse.This is a lovely children's work which contains stories about various important historical figures. Contents include 'The Lady-in-Chief', 'Hannibal', 'The Marquis of Montrose', and 'Palissy the Potter'.Written by Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1851-1933), an English author, editor, and translator. She helped to write 'The Fairy Books' with her husband Andrew Lang, between 1889 and 1913.Edited by Andrew Lang (1844-1912), a Scottish poet, novelist, and literary critic. His contributions within the field of anthropology are well-remembered at the University of St Andrews, where he studied, with a lecture series named after him. The most famous lecture from within the series, titled 'Fairy Stories', was given by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1939.With three pages of publisher's adverts to front of text.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light wear to the extremities with bumping to head and tail of spine. Fading to the spine and the margins of boards, with a few marks. Endpapers are lightly age-toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout, with light age-toning to margins of text. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Lang, Andrew. The Red Book Of Animal Stories. Longmans, Green, and Co, 1909.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Selected and edited by Andrew Lang, with numerous illustrations by H J Ford. 1909 reprint of original 1899 edition. Red cloth cover with bright gilt title and decoration. All edges gilt. Binding solid, light wear.
Seller: tim hildebrand books, Janesville, WI, U.S.A.
MRS. LANG. LANG, Andrew (ed.). The Red Book of Heroes.. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1909.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: xii, 419 pp. With 8 coloured plates and numerous illustrations by A. Wallis Mills. 8vo, publisher's red gilt-decorated cloth; t.e.g. First edition. Tiny booksellers ticket; a bright, clean, tight and sound copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
MRS LANG EDITED BY ANDREW LANG. THE RED BOOK OF HEROES. LONGMANS, GREEN & CO, LONDON, 1909.
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL GILT DECORATED CLOTH BINDING, 8 FULL PAGE COLOUR PLATES PLUS NUMEROUS BLACK & WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THAT ARE FULL PAGE OR AMONG TEXT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 14 + 368 PAGES. CORNERS BUMPED, SMALL HOLE TO FRONT DECORATED ENDPAPER, SMALL INSCRIPTION TO FRONT ENDPAPER, VERY SLIGHT PLAY TO FRONT HINGE. OVERALL A LOVELY COPY WITH GILT COVER BRIGHT, SPINE UNFADED & PAGES CLEAN. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Lang (Andrew).. The Red Book of Heroes. Longmans, Green, and Co.,, 1909.
Price: US$269.36 + shipping
Description: Colour frontispiece, plates in colour and black-and-white, illustrations by A. Wallis Mills Lower cover a little marked, but a very nice, bright copy Original red pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom