The Orange Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1906. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. H.J. Ford. Hardcover book in poor condition. Cracked spine, slightly bowed, rippling and staining on front and back covers, wear at edges and bumps on corners, Bleached spine, small tears at corners, slight foxing small stains, and yellowing at edges of pages throughout, heavy foxing on first and last pages. Tear at spine on title page. Otherwise a lovely copy. and Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If buying internationally, please be aware that additional charges may apply for heavier books. We guarantee a safe, quick, and secure transaction. 10+ years in online bookselling experience.
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
- Encore Books & Records
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021360
- Title
- The Orange Fairy Book
- Author
- Andrew Lang
- Illustrator
- H.J. Ford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
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About the Seller
Encore Books & Records
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Montreal, Quebec
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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