Lang (Andrew, editor) The Crimson Fairy Book
£395
London, Longmans, Green, 1927.
New Impression. 8vo. Original burgundy cloth blocked in blind to upper cover and gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
The eighth of Andrew Lang’s twelve “Coloured” Fairy Books, first published in 1903, gathering thirty-six tales drawn from Hungary, Russia, the Baltic states, Finland, Iceland and Tunisia among other sources, compiled with the substantial uncredited assistance of his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang.
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Minor softening to cloth at head of spine, but really an excellent example; jacket good+.
8 colour plates and numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford.
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