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The Orange Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang [ed.]
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$632.87A$569.59
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1906 . First edition. Cloth. Good. 8" by 5.5". H. J. Ford. The first edition of Andrew Lang's tenth 'Fairy Book' this being the delightful orange volume. Illustrated throughout by H. J. Ford. The first edition of this work, the tenth book in Andrew Lang's monumental 'Fairy Book' series.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, a vignette title page, seven colour plates, seventeen monochrome plates, and thirty-three in-text engravings. Collated, complete.This orange volume contains tales from Jutland, Rhodesia, Uganda, and other various European traditions.The stories include 'The Magic Mirror', 'The Ugly Duckling', 'The Enchanted Wreath', 'The White Doe', 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 the stamp of P Brunet to the front free endpaper.Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, a noted English illustrator who is best known for his beautiful illustrations for Lang's works. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Discolouration to back strip and board perimeters. Head of front joint starting, with cloth fraying in this region. Hinges strained, and somewhat tender. Stamp to front pastedown. Internally, binding strained throughout. Pages bright, with handling marks throughout. Pencil to page 84 margins, with closed tear to tail of list of illustration leaf. Good
Synopsis
The children who read fairy books, or have fairy books read to them, do not read prefaces, and the parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, who give fairy books to their daughters, nieces, and cousines, leave prefaces unread. For whom, then, are prefaces written? When an author publishes a book 'out of his own head,' he writes the preface for his own pleasure. After reading over his book in print - to make sure that all the 'u's' are not printed as 'n's,' and all the 'n's' as 'u's' in the proper names - then the author says, mildly, in his preface, what he thinks about his own book, and what he means it to prove - if he means it to prove anything - and why it is not a better book than it is.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 890F22
- Title
- The Orange Fairy Book
- Author
- Andrew Lang [ed.]
- 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
- 1906
- Size
- 8" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- lang andrew lang orange fairy book fairy book andrew lang
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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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