Lang, Andrew
The Pink Fairy Book
Publisher:
Longmans, Green, and Co. London
Date of Publication:
1897
Stock Code:
12148
FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. viii, [2], 360. Numerous illustrations by Henry Justice Ford including captioned frontispiece with tissue-guard. Publisher’s advertisements for the fairy series verso of half-title. Original coral pink publishers’ cloth with gilt titles to spine and fairy motifs blocked in gold to spine and upper board. All edges gilt, black endpapers. Cloth spine sunned but very clean. Contents remarkably clean, free from marks or ownership inscriptions and complete with tissue guards. A very good copy.
An attractive first edition of the fifth in the sought after Fairy Book series edited by folklorist Andrew Lang. With 36 fairy stories, ghost stories and folk tales, collected predominantly from Japan and Denmark sources, translated and adapted by Andrew Lang’s wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne and others.
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