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The Green Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good to fine
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
xiv+866+[2 ad] pages with engraved frontispiece, 12 full page plates, vignette engraved illustrations in the text throughout. Small octavo (7 1/4f" x 5") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial decoration to front board and lower spine and gilt end pages. Illustrator Henry J. Ford. First edition, first impression of the third installment in the Fairy Book series.
In his Preface to this volume, Lang expressed the view that it would be "probably the last" of the collection. Their continuing popularity, however, demanded subsequent collections. In The Green Fairy Book, Lang has assembled stories from Spanish and Chinese traditions.The third installment of Andrew Lang's widely read classics,
The Green Fairy Book has been admired time and time again, enchanting readers with its carefully crafted prose and eclectic assortment of fairy tales. Originally published in 1892, this collection of celebrated tales has stood the test of time. Some of the famous stories included are:
•The Three Little Pigs
•The Three Bears •The Blue Bird
•The Magic Swan •The Enchanted Ring
•The Twelve Huntsmen •And many more!
This beautiful edition comes complete with the original illustrations by Golden Age Illustrator Henry J. Ford, and is the perfect gift to pass on these timeless classics to the next generation of readers and dreamers.
The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Cultured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book.
Condition: New black coated end papers, light rubbing to ends, some intermittent internal soiling else vary good to fine.
Extended Description and Notes
In his Preface to this volume, Lang expressed the view that it would be "probably the last" of the collection. Their continuing popularity, however, demanded subsequent collections. In The Green Fairy Book, the third in the series, Lang has assembled stories from Spanish and Chinese traditions.
Synopsis
The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries and were translated by Lang's wife and other translators who also retold many of the tales. The collection has been incalculably important and, although he did not source the stories himself direct from the oral tradition he can make claim to the first English translation of many.First published in 1892, The Green Fairy Bookis the 3rd volume in this series.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L1183
- Title
- The Green Fairy Book
- Author
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good to fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Pages
- xiv+866+[2 ad] pages with engraved frontispiece, 12 full page plates, vignette engraved illustrations in the text throughout.
- Size
- Small octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fairy Tales
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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