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Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Description: , xii, 388 pages, 8 coloured plates, 24 black and white plates, in text illustrations First Edition , disbound, boards with tape attached, spine creased, front free endpaper torn, missing p159-164, p171-176 and 2 black and white plates, one coloured plate with tape, some foxing and marks to pages, some pages taped, poor condition , blue cloth with gilt stamped illustrations to front and spine, coloured endpapers, full gilt edges , 19 cm x`13 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Andrew Lang. The Violet Fairy Book. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1901.
Price: US$289.86 + shipping
Description: The first edition Andrew Lang's sought after 'Violet Fairy Book', a colourfully illustrated volume of his popular series. The first edition of this popular work."The Violet Fairy Book" is the thirteenth book in Andrew Lang"s "Fairy Book" series. "Violet" has short fairy tales sourced from Japan, Romania, Lithuania, Portugal, Serbia, Russia, and Africa.Including 'The Finest Liar in the World', 'The Three Princes and Their Beasts', 'How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water', 'The Fairy of the Dawn', 'The Enchanted Knife', and more.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven colour plates, twenty-five monochrome plates, and many in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.Written by Andrew Lang, who is best known for these collections of folk and fairy tales.Illustrated by H. J. Ford. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, a little worn, with dampstains to the boards. Bumping and a small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is discoloured and rubbed. Gilt to the front board is a little faded. Rear joint is cracked with some fraying to the cloth. Front hinge is weak, rear hinge has failed. Internally, binding is strained in places. Pages are bright and clean with the occasional spot and handling mark. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Description: Colour and Black and White plates and illustrations. Professionally repaired: Spine rebacked, retaining original spine. With original endpapers. All colour plates present. Inscription to half-title (does it really say 'with author's love'? It looks like it.) Clean and tight.
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
Price: US$519.17 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION 8vo. hardback rebound in full tree calf with raised bands, black calf title label, gilt, and highly decorated gilt spine. Decorative gilt borders and edges to boards and "Branksome Godalming" (presumably Branksome School) in gilt to upper board. Marbled edges and endpapers with Bickers Bindery stamp to ffep. 388pp. illustrated with 8 colour and 25 b/w full page plates, plus 33 smaller b/w illustrations within the text. Ink inscription, dated 1905, to early blank. Occasional light foxing and handling marks, somewhat heavier to prelims. A few small corners missing but not affecting text or images. A VERY GOOD, HANDSOME SCHOOL PRIZE BINDING. (Shelf 4) ** Pictures available upon request, if not already displayed here.** The shop is open 7 days a week. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
LANG, Andrew (ed.).. The Violet Fairy Book.. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901, 1901.
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of the seventh title in the Fairy Books series. Taken from Romanian, Japanese, Swahili, and many other sources, its 35 stories include "The Fairy of the Dawn", "The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan", and "The Princess who was hidden Underground". 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". Grolier Children's 100, 51. Octavo. Original violet cloth, spine lettered in gilt, spine and front cover blocked in gilt with elaborate floral and fairy motifs within a starry setting, black coated endpapers, edges gilt. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 7 colour plates, 25 uncoloured engraved plates, further engravings in the text, all by H. J. Ford. Contemporary gift inscription on half-title; blind stamp of bookseller William Allan of Middlesborough on rear free endpaper recto. Slight rubbing to cloth, the gilt unaffected and notably bright, faint mark to copyright and dedication pages, occasional foxing elsewhere. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom