The Lilac Fairy Book
by Lang, Andrew [editor]
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Longmans, Green, and Co, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No jacket. Purple cloth with gilt spine titling and decoration, elaborate illustration blind-stamped to front. Cloth is still bright and vivid, with very slight fading along fore-edges and outer hinges; a few stains here and there; edgeworn, with rubbing to bottom edges and spots of fraying to spine ends and fore-edge corners. Spine tilt forward. Binding intact, cracked at pages 256 and 336. All plates present. Gift inscription dated Christmas of 1915 neatly inked to FFEP. Interior else clean, pages lightly toned, text unmarked.
Synopsis
The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries and were translated by Lang's wife and other translators who also retold many of the tales. The collection has been incalculably important and, although he did not source the stories himself direct from the oral tradition he can make claim to the first English translation of many.First published in 1910, The Lilac Fairy Bookis the final volume in this series.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Bin
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBS-2019580
- Title
- The Lilac Fairy Book
- Author
- Lang, Andrew [editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co
- Date Published
- 1910
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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,...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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