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The Pink Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
£495.00£445.50
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1897. First edition. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5". H. J. Ford. The first edition of Andrew Lang's 'Pink Fairy Book', a lavishly illustrated work of folklore tales from Japan, Scandinavia, and Sicily. The first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette title page, thirty-three full paged engravings, and thirty-five in-text engravings.Collated, complete.'The Pink Fairy Book' is Lang's fifth book in his popular 'Fairy Books' series.The pink volume contains stories from Sicilian, Scandinavian, and Japanese folklore.Containing 'The Snow-Queen', 'The Cunning Shoemaker', 'The Merry Wives', 'The Sprig of Rosemary', 'The House in the Wood', 'The Goblin and the Grocer', 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.Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, a noted English illustrator who is best known for his beautiful illustrations for Lang's works. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Spine is a little faded. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards. Tears to the head and tail of the rear joint. Hinges are strained. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional scattered spot. Closed tear to the head of page 269/270. Page 49/50 is detached but present. Good
Synopsis
All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children. The Japanese tell them, the Chinese, the Red Indians by their camp fires, the Eskimo in their dark dirty winter huts. The Kaffirs of South Africa tell them, and the modern Greeks, just as the old Egyptians did, when Moses had not been many years rescued out of the bulrushes. The Germans, French, Spanish, Italians, Danes, Highlanders tell them also, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 894P53
- Title
- The Pink Fairy Book
- Author
- Andrew Lang
- Illustrator
- H. J. Ford
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- The Pink Fairy Book andrew lang h. j. ford fairies andrew lang
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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