Andrew Lang 56306

The green fairy book - Rainbow fairy books

The Folio Society, 2009. Linnen band. Pp: 354. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

De SlegteProfessional seller

Book number: 2665264

Andrew Lang 56306

The yellow fairy book - rainbow fairy books

The Folio Society, 2008. Linnen band. Pp: 385. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

De SlegteProfessional seller

Book number: 2665223

Mrs. Lang [Leonora Blanche Alleyne]; Andrew Lang [ed.]

The Red Book of Heroes

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1909. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this children's story collection on historical 'heroes', illustrated with colour plates throughout. The first edition of this work.In the publisher's original cloth with illustrative gilt and illustrated endpapers.With eight coloured plates, including a frontispiece, and seventeen monochrome plates. Collated complete. A wonderful collection of stories based on prominent historical figures. Stories include 'The Lady-in-Chief' about Florence Nightingale, 'Prisoners and Captives' about John Howard and 'A Child's Hero' about Henry Havelock. Written by Leonora Blanche Alleyne, an English writer, editor and translator best known for her collaborative 'Fairy Books' series with her husband, Andrew Lang. With three pages of advertisements to the beginning of the work. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart with slight wear to the extremities and bumping to the head and tail of spine. Marks and handling marks to the boards, heaviest to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: A. Wallis Mills. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 909Y49

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Children's Literature Illustrated Short Stories Illustrated A. Wallis Mills

Mrs. Lang [Leonora Blanche Alleyne] ; Andrew Lang (Ed)

The Red Book of Heroes

London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta, Longmans, Green and Co. 1909. First edition. Cloth. 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&apos. 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 . Ill.: A. Wallis Mills. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 814D7

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: The Red Book of Heroes children's literature biography Leonora Blanche Alleyne children's literature colour plates A. Wallis Mills

LANG Andrew, JAMES Gilbert

Aucassin and Nicolete

Routledge, c. 1900. 12mo. Contemporary gilt tooled full calf, top edge gilt (slightly rubbed at head of spine, some small spots at spine - otherwise bright VG). Unpaginated, illus with 12 photogravures after drawings by Gilbert James (no inscriptions). .

Rothwell & Dunworth LtdProfessional seller

Book number: 128491

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature

LANG. Andrew (ed)

The blue fairy book

Airmont, 1969. Used - Good. Good paperback New edition. Airmont Classics CL196. Some yellowing to pages & spine; crease in spine Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_17188_jpg.jpg.

Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS241667I

LANG Andrew, ALDERSON Brian [Editor]

The Blue Fairy Book

Book Club Associates, 1978. Book club edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (faint spotting on page edges - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (light wear at edges - in protective cover). Pp. ix + 373, with b&w illus by John Lawrence (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper). .

Rothwell & Dunworth LtdProfessional seller

Book number: 188239

Catalogue: Literature childrens

Andrew Lang

Helen of Troy

. Unknown Binding , Condition: Acceptable.

Aardvark Rare BooksProfessional seller

Book number: mon0000058389

LANG ANDREW

The Nursery Rhyme Book

London, Frederick Warne. 1897, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: L Leslie Brooke. rebacked with spine laid down, bottom corners rubbed back to boards, new endpapers, a few instances of neatly erased pencil to some drawings, all edge gilt, a tidy but not perfect copy, 288pp. Good/No Jacket.

Fortuna BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 011397

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: Illustrated Childrens Fairy Tales Nursery Rhymes Victorian Collectable L Leslie Brooke

Andrew Lang

The Orange Fairy Book

Longmans & Co. Hardback , Condition: Good.

Aardvark Rare BooksProfessional seller

Book number: mon0000354767

Andrew Lang 56306, (Ill.) Debra McFarlane

The Pink Fairy Book - rainbow fairy books

The Folio Society, 2007. Cloth in slipcase. Pp: 336. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

De SlegteProfessional seller

Book number: 2182476

Catalogue: Literatuur

LANG Andrew

Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered Into English Prose with an Introductory Essay

Macmillan & Co. 1928. Golden Treasury Series. 12mo (6 x 4 ins). Original gilt decorated blue morocco , all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (spine faded and light marks at edges of boards), slipcase (faded at edges). Pp. xlii + 210, with silk page marker (no inscriptions). .

Rothwell & Dunworth LtdProfessional seller

Book number: 181215

Catalogue: Classics

Andrew Lang

Violet Fairy

Longmans. Hardback , Condition: Good.

Aardvark Rare BooksProfessional seller

Book number: mon0000365793

ANDREW LANG; J. J. ATKINSON

Social Origins; Primal Law

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1903, First Thus. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, xviii 311; 4pp hardback, black publisher's cloth gilt, extremities of spine rubbed, ex-British Library and a former library private with usual stamps and labels. Good.

Salsus BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 070144

Keywords: anthropology

Augustine Birrell; Andrew Lang; Ian MacLaren; J P Mahaffy; Austin Dobson; Leslie Stephen; 'A'; Edmund Gosse; Goldwin Smith; Herbert Paul; Earl of Crewe; John Oliver Hobbes; Vernon Lee; Stanley Lane-Poole; Arthur Machen; Hon Lionel A Tollemache; George W S

Among My Books Papers on Literary Subjects by the Following Writers

London, Elliot Stock, 1898. Hardcover. ND, 1898 (WorldCat). Excellent and entertaining selection of essays collected from the pages of 'Literature' magazine. Stock lightly toned but otherwise in VG order throughout. Green cloth boards with bevelled edges and gilt titling to front and spine. This faded, boards only lightly marked and thus a nice copy of a scarce book. 8vo. 158pp . Very Good/No Jacket.

Dodman BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 003099

Catalogue: Literary Criticism