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St. Augustine Academy Press, 2012-06-15. Paperback. Used:Good.

St. Augustine Academy Press, 2012-06-15. Paperback. Used: Good.

Longmans, Green and Co, 1927. Hardcover. Good. A collection predominantly of Arthurian tales, with a few other classic heroes including Robin Hood, Roland, and others. Most retold by Leonora Lang, with the story of Grettir the Strong retold by Everard. This collection originally published 1902, this copy is a 1927 printing. Navy cloth with yellow titling and decoration, about good; soiled to top of rear hinge, light edgewear. Early binding repair, with cloth reinforcement at inner hinges. Binding sound. No jacket. Blue speckled page edges. Gift inscription to previous owner neatly inked to FFEP, dated Christmas 1935. Interior else clean, pages toned, text unmarked. With numerous black and white illustrations and eight color plates by H. J. Ford, all present.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1894. Near fine.. Third edition of this collection of adventure stories, translated and adapted for children by a variety of primarily women authors, selected by Andrew Lang. These true tales of adventure include Casanova's escape from the Doge's palace, Leif Erikson's voyage to North America, and Cervantes's escape from corsairs. Typical for Lang's edited collections, the work to adapt and translate these stories has primarily been accomplished by women with whom he worked, duly credited in the preface, though not the title page. This is a gorgeous copy of a title highly sought for its pictorial cloth binding. 7.25'' x 4.75''. Original blue pictorial cloth elaborately stamped in gilt. All edges gilt, black coated endpapers. Illustrated in black and white throughout by various artists, including tissue-guarded frontispiece by H.J. Ford. One page of ads at rear. xvi, 337, [3] pages. Faint evidence of erasure mark on front fly leaf; ink gift inscription dated… Read More

Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, 1920. Very good plus.. Early 20th century US edition of this classic book of fairy tales with a different binding style than the first edition, still elaborately designed for a gift audience. Andrew Lang is considered the fairytale taste-maker of late 19th and early 20th century British nurseries, with his color fairy book series leading the charge. Stories in this volume include "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Rapunzel," "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," and "The Story of Sigurd" (from Morris's translation of the Volsunga Saga). Typical for Lang's edited collections, the work to adapt and translate these stories has primarily been accomplished by others with whom he worked (often women), duly credited in the preface, though not the title page. This edition was issued in the Washington Square Classics series, a US marketing effort at reissuing well-known titles in beautiful gift editions in the 1910s and 1920s. 7.5'' x 5.5''. Original gilt-stamped navy color, pictorial… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1905. Very Good. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905. First Edition. Octavo. 372 pp. Eight color plates including frontispiece with tissue guard; numerous additional black and white illustrations. Half-bound in red morocco; five raised bands, gilt decoration, and green title label to spine; top edge gilt; new marbled endpapers. Recent repair to joints; light wear to extremities and spine. Binding is sound. Toning to edges of text block though interior unmarked and legible throughout. A Very Good copy in an attractive binding. Part of Lang's Fairy Book Series, these stories being stories of medieval chivalry retold for children.

London & New York: Longmans, Green, 1892. First, Limited Edition & Large-Paper Edition. Hardcover. Good. Small quarto, 366 pages, deckle-edges, boards, rebacked with paper, paper label on spine. Copy no. 18 of only 150 in large-paper. Black-and-white illustrations by H. J. Ford. This is the 3rd book in this series, and Lang promised no more in his Introduction; but that promise was to be broken many times. This volume includes "The Story of the Three Bears": this is the first variant of the tale in which the human visitor is an old woman. Here are other tales from French, Spanish, and Chinese sources. Here also is a different version of "The Three Little Pigs". It is known that J.R.R. Tolkien had read and commented upon this book, so he must have known "The Enchanted Watch" and "The Enchanted Ring", at least one of which may have given JRRT some ideas.