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The Orange Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1919 . Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 6". H. J. Ford. A new impression of Andrew Lang's tenth 'Fairy Book', illustrated throughout by H. J. Ford. A new impression of this work, which was first published in 1906.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.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and seven further colour plates, and with seventeen monochrome plates and further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, a noted English illustrator who is best known for his beautiful illustrations for Lang's works.With a former owner's inscription, dated 1921, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with a touch of discolouration to back strip. Boards bright. Spotting to text block fore edge. Rear hinge strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with instances of significant spotting and handling marks throughout. Very 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 #
- 894F49
- Title
- The Orange Fairy Book
- Author
- Andrew Lang
- Illustrator
- H. J. Ford
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1919
- Size
- 8" by 6"
- Keywords
- fairy book andrew lang fairy tales andrew lang
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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