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New York: Airmont Classic # CL-196, 1972. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Tight clean and square, flat spine, 383 pages with b & w illustrations through-out, ink name on half-title page, 3 small check marks on contents page (minor), faint rubbing. "The world has changed much since these stories were first repeated. we no longer believe in witches and fairy godmothers, but like those children of long ago. we still love to hear about sorcery and spells." Contents include: Intro: The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang / Blue Beard / Trusty John / The Brave Little Tailor / A Voyage to Lilliput / The Princess on the Glass Hill / The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou / The History of Jack the Giant-Killer / The Black Bull of Norroway / The Red Etin / Prince Darling / Toads and Diamonds / The Goose-Girl / Snow-White and Rose-Red / Hansel & Grettel / The Forty Thieves / Little Thumb / The Wonderful Sheep / The History of Whittington / The Story of Pretty Goldilocks /… Read More

Dover Pubns, 1965. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in the series and so it contains some of the best known tales, taken from a variety of sources: not only from Grimm, but exciting adventures by Charles Perrault and Madame D'Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights, and other stories from popular traditions. Here in one attractive paperbound volume - with enlarged print - are Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltzkin, Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel, Puss in Boots, Trusty John, Jack and the Giantkiller, Goldilocks, and many other favorites that have become an indispensable part of our culture heritage.

New York.: Barnes & Noble. , 2017.. First edition thus. Full number line.. Decorated hard cover. Gilt edges. Blue leather.. Fine copy. . Octavo. . Illustrated by Henry J. Ford and G.P. Jacomb Hood. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

New York.: Barnes & Noble. , 2017.. Reprint. . Decorated hard cover. Gilt edges. Blue leather.. Fine copy. . Octavo. . Illustrated by Henry J. Ford and G.P. Jacomb Hood. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

NY: McLoughlin Bros.. 1897. good-. Hardcover. 10" tall; 281pp; blue cover with gilt letters & decoration on spine; full color il'd paste-downs cover front & back cover; il on front is of old woman seated with spindle, young woman, possibly Sleeping Beauty, standing in front of her holding part of the equipment; color litho frontis of Hansel & witch; b/w ils with text; 2-column format; heavy wear to extrems of cover .

The John C. Winston Company 1930. Octavo, blue cloth boards, black lettering to spine, illus plate to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xi + 396pp, illus, VG- (2cm crack to top spine hinge, moderate chafing to spine, light scuffing & bruising to board edges, light staining to rear board, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name to ffep, moderate cracking to gutters towards front of book, half title page v loose, 4cm closed tear to bottom of pg 217)

1950. New York, Grosset and Dunlap, n.d. (c.1950). 14 x 21cm. 428 pages, with colour frontispiece and black and white text illustrations. Original clothbound hardcover with illustrated endpapers. Poor condition ! Cloth lost from spine, although the joint is still firm. Some bumping and wear to edges and corners of boards. Internally in good condition, other than text markings to contents page. Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published between 1889 and 1913. The Blue Fairy Book, first published in 1889, was the first volume in the series and so it contains some of the best known tales, taken from a variety of sources. It assembled a wide range of tales, with seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norwegian fairy tales, among other sources.

David McKay Company, 1921. Hardcover. Good. . Scarce. First thus. Blue cloth boards with paste-on illustrated front board. Some rubbing to edges, slight shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1890 . Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5". H. J. Ford; G. P. Jacomb. The third edition of the first of Andrew Lang's influential 'Fairy Books', with this blue volume containing the tales of many eminent folklorists. The third edition of this work, published the year after the first.Illustrated with a frontispiece, seven plates, and many in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.'The Blue Fairy Book' is the first book in Lang's influential 'Fairy Book' series.This blue volume contains fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, Madame d'Aulnoy, Arabian Nights, and Norwegian folktales.Arguably the blue volume contains the best known fairy tales, such as 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood', 'Cinderella', 'Aladdin', 'Beauty and the Beast', 'Hansel and Gretel', 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.With a former owner's… Read More

London: Longman, Green & Co.,, 1889. Large paper copy First edition, large paper copy, number 13 of 113 copies, the deluxe limited issue of the first in Lang's series of "coloured" fairy books, which continued through to The Lilac Fairy Book in 1910. Only four of the titles (Blue, Red, Green, and Yellow) from the series of 12 were issued in this deluxe format. The Blue Fairy Book was immediately successful, and the series effected a seismic shift in the public's taste for fairytales. Unprecedented in the international scope of its sources, the success of the series also owes much "to the devoted work of their illustrator, who... provided a benchmark in fantasy illustration" (Grolier). Though it is Andrew Lang's name which appears as the author of the fairy books, they were largely the result of the work of others, most crucially female translators such as his wife, Leonora (1851-1933) and others such as May Kendall and Margaret Hunt, both of whom also published fairy tales collections in their own… Read More