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Andrew Lang (Ed.). THE RED FAIRY BOOK. Longmans, Green, GB, 1890.
Price: US$20.34 + shipping
Description: No edition stated. VERY WORN text LACKS AT LEAST ONE LEAF 353/354 and may lack others. Bound in old plain pink blind crazed cloth with rather worn red title label on spine. This is just a very poor reading copy.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
LANG, Andrew (ed). The red fairy book. Longmans, Green and Co, 1890.
Price: US$95.55 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 1890. Lacks spine backstrip and one illustration (facing p. 328). Gift inscription on half-title page. 16pp ads at rear. A little scattered foxing. Some repaired cracks to hinges. Tissue guard for frontis quite worn. Stains on boards. Gilt decoration on front board. Could do with a rebinding. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in red cloth
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue cloth cover with silver gilt decoration shows minor wear and rubbing. Label of former owner on the front endpaper. Pages lightly tanned with foxing on and near the edges.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 367, 16 pages, frontispiece and three plates, illustrations. Rebacked, with original boards, a new author/title label at spine, and new endpapers. Binding sturdy, corners exposed, gold-stamped image at front panel rubbed but still pleasing; gift inscription at half title, text and plates unmarked and attractive, no tissue guards (if issued), 16 page advertising supplement dated "9/90." 640 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$336.35 + shipping
Description: Hardback, Size 7.5 x 5 inches. Red cloth covers with gilt to spine and gilt illustrated design to front. All edges gilt. Deep purple endpapers. In good condition. Spine professionally rebacked and relaid. Some darkening and handling marks to cloth, corners slightly bumped and nicked. Original deep purple endpapers, with a few tiny nicks on edges. Pages with some darkening/tanning around edges, Inside pages tanned, some areas have foxing. Else pages all clean and tight. Binding tight and sound. Else a good first edition. 367pp. 16pp adverts. Illustrated with many B&W illustrations within text and 4 full-page plates. Second in the series of Fairy books. A collection of stories for children. First Edition.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Andrew Lang [Editor]. The Red Fairy Book. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1890.
Price: US$495.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The second volume in Lang's fairy tale collection, hosts several of the fairy tales most prominent in modern times, including Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Golden Goose, but also some tales that deserve wider telling, including The Enchanted Pig and Drakestail. Maroon/red leather, gilt lettering to front with owners initials in gilt. Raised Stamped binding to spine 367 pages. Cover edges well rubbed. Illustrator: H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Rare & Collectible::Rare & Collectible; Myths, Legends & Folklore; Myth, Legend, Folk & Fairy Tales. Inventory No: 236105.
Seller: Leura Books, Bowral, NSW, Australia
Andrew Lang. The Red Fairy Book. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1890.
Price: US$630.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An association copy of the first edition of Andrew Lang's second fairy book. Inscribed by Lang's friend and collaborator H. Rider Haggard to Haggard's own children, Dolly and Angie. The first edition of this work.The verso of the original front blank inscribed by novelist H. Rider Haggard with the message 'To Angie and Dolly from their Dad, 29. Nov, 1890'.Angela and Dorothy Haggard were the middle two of Haggard's four children, and would have been seven and six years old respectively at the time of publication.Lang and Haggard were personal friends, co-authoring the fantast novel 'The World's Desire' in 1890. Lang has also helped Haggard plan and revise the novels 'She', 'Allan's Wife', 'Beatrice', 'Eric Brighteyes', 'Nada the Lily' and also added poems to 'Cleopatra'.Illustrated with a frontispiece, three plates and numerous vignette illustrations by Henry Justice Ford and Lancelot Speed. Collated, complete.Including tales such as 'The Twelve Dancing Princesses', 'Jack and the Beanstalk', 'Rapunzel', 'Snowdrop', 'The Golden Goose', and more.With twenty pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.Rebacked, with endpapers renewed.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. Rebacked, in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with original back strip laid down and boards restored. Endpapers renewed. Discolouration to back strip. Bumping to fore edge of board, with small losses of cloth to board head and tail. Inscribed leaf tipped in between front pastedown and front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Marginal tape repairs to margin and tail of half title, frontispiece, title page, and following three leaves. Pages a touch age toned, with light handling marks throughout. Instances of spotting and foxing throughout. Further tape repairs to tail of pages 240 and 242. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Andrew Lang. The Red Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and co., 1890.
Price: US$685.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition, shows minor shelf wear and rubbing on spine, some tearing on outside of spine. Gold lettering on spine is still readable albeit fading, graphic on front cover is surprisingly intact. Golding on outside of pages is still very intact, binding is surprisingly tight for age and shows no inside separation. Comes in protective plastic slip cover to avoid further wear.
Seller: Amusespot, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$764.43 + shipping
Description: First edition of the second instalment in Lang's "Fairy Book" series, containing a range of popular tales including "The Twelve Dancing Princesses", "Jack and Beanstalk", and "Rapunzel", as well as "The Story of Sigurd", a condensation of William Morris's Volsunga Saga. Though it is Andrew Lang's name which appears as the author of the fairy books, they were largely the result of the work of others, most crucially female translators such as his wife, Leonora (1851-1933), and authors such as May Kendall and Margaret Hunt, both of whom also published fairy tales collections in their own name. Lang acknowledged this in the preface to The Lilac Fairy Book (1910): "The fairy books have been almost wholly the work of Mrs. Lang, who has translated and adapted them from the French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and other languages". Octavo (190 x 123 mm). Contemporary red half morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering and floral decoration in compartments, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece, 3 plates, title vignette, and numerous in-text illustrations by H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. A touch of rubbing to extremities, edges foxed, contents generally clean. A very good copy, attractively bound.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Andrew Lang [ed.]. The Blue Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1890.
Price: US$955.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The third edition of the first of Andrew Lang's influential 'Fairy Books', with this blue volume containing the tales of many eminent folklorists. The third edition of this work, published the year after the first.Illustrated with a frontispiece, seven plates, and many in-text illustrations. 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.With a former owner's inscription to the half title.With a sixteen page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated August 1889.Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford and George Percy Jacomb-Hood. Ford was a noted English illustrator best known for his beautiful illustrations for Lang's works. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. A touch of discolouration to back strip. Former owner's inscription to half title. Internally, generally firmly bound, with binding a touch strained in places. Pages bright, with light handling marks and instances of spotting throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom