Green Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew (Edited by Brian Alderson; Illustrations by Antony Maitland.)

London: Kestrel / Viking [0-670-35420-1] 1978. (Hardcover) 408pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to the spine. Frontispiece, illustrations, appendix, notes. Lightly edgeworn, the front cover has a minor soil mark and pin-prick, and some pages are dog-eared. "In this new edition of the Green Fairy Book you will find most of the stories which Andrew Lang put there in 1892, but they are not now in quite the same order or told in quite the same way. An explanation of why this should be is given after Andrew Lang's Preface, on page 398, and that is followed by the detailed notes on the changes that have been made" - from the Preface. Edited by Brian Alderson. Illustrations by Antony Maitland. (Mythology, Fairies, Folklore, Mythology).