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Published by LEGARE STREET PR, 2022
ISBN 10: 1017321426ISBN 13: 9781017321425
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
Book Print on Demand
PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
Hardcover. Condition: 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.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2022
ISBN 10: 1017321426ISBN 13: 9781017321425
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.
Published by LEGARE STREET PR, 2022
ISBN 10: 1017321426ISBN 13: 9781017321425
Seller: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. H. J. Ford (illustrator). A smart new impression of this collection of legendary tales by Mrs. Lang, with illustrations by H. J. Ford. New impression of this work, originally published in 1912. Collection of tales telling of saints fighting dragons and troubled beasts, reflective of profound spiritual truths. Written by Leonora Blanche"Nora"Lang, English author and editor, known for her collaboration forThe Fairy Bookspublished with her husband Andrew Lang. This book was edited by Andrew Lang.Illustrated by H. J. Ford with coloured as well as black and white full page plates. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to fore edge, affecting only first few leaves, otherwise pages bright and clean. Very Good. book.
Condition: 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 "Christmas 1897" to recto of frontispiece. Only a bit of edgewear.
Published by Longmans, Green and Co., London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta, 1909
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A. Wallis Mills (illustrator). First edition. A wonderful first edition copy of this biographical book for children, which contains information on various historical 'heroes', with vivid colour plates by A. Wallis Mills. First Edition.Illustrations include one colour frontispiece, six colour plates, seventeen black-and-white plates, and twenty-three in-text illustrations. These were all drawn by Arthur Wallis Mills (1878-1940), a British artist who often contributed to 'Punch Magazine', and illustrated different works by Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse.This is a lovely children's work which contains stories about various important historical figures. Contents include 'The Lady-in-Chief', 'Hannibal', 'The Marquis of Montrose', and 'Palissy the Potter'.Written by Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1851-1933), an English author, editor, and translator. She helped to write 'The Fairy Books' with her husband Andrew Lang, between 1889 and 1913.Edited by Andrew Lang (1844-1912), a Scottish poet, novelist, and literary critic. His contributions within the field of anthropology are well-remembered at the University of St Andrews, where he studied, with a lecture series named after him. The most famous lecture from within the series, titled 'Fairy Stories', was given by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1939.With three pages of publisher's adverts to front of text.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light wear to the extremities with bumping to head and tail of spine. Fading to the spine and the margins of boards, with a few marks. Endpapers are lightly age-toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout, with light age-toning to margins of text. Very Good. book.
Condition: 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 paste-on. Pictorial endpapers printed in blue. Illustrated by Lee with full color frontispiece, six further full-page color images, and black-and-white vignettes. viii, 399, [1] pages. Binding rather bumped at extremities. Front hinge repaired. Interior clean, gilt bright.
Published by Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1905
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: 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.
[A. Wallis Mills] Lang The Red Book of Heroes Longmans, Green, & Co. 1909 Mrs. Lang (Leonora Blanche Alleyne). Andrew Lang, editor. A. Wallis Mills, illustrator. The Red Book of Heroes. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909. First edition. Small octavo. 407pp. With 8 colored plates and numerous illustrations by A. Wallis Mills. Publisher's red pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, all edges gilt. . Light wear to boards, bumped to lower front cover, small tear to spine tail, minor interior toning. Very good. SJK-28.
Published by Longmans, Green, London & New York, 1892
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: 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. First, Limited Edition & Large-Paper Edition.