Lot 129
  • 129

LANG, VIOLET, CRIMSON, BROWN, ORANGE, OLIVE AND LILAC FAIRY BOOKS, 1901-1910, ALL BUT THE FIFTH IN DUST-JACKETS (6 VOL)

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Andrew Lang
  • Six Fairy Books comprising;
  • Paper
i) The Violet Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. FIRST EDITION, black endpapers, loss to spine; ii) The Crimson Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. FIRST EDITION, pink and blue pictorial endpapers, tear to p.359; iii) The Brown Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. FIRST EDITION, maroon pictorial endpapers silver; iv)The Orange Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906. FIRST EDITION; v) The Olive Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907. FIRST EDITION, light turquoise and blue pictorial endpapers; vi) The Lilac Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910. FIRST EDITION, 2pp. of publisher's advertisements   all 8vo, (181 x 119mm.), with colour plates and numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford, original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, all but The Olive Fairy Book with dust-jackets, spotting, dust-jackets worn and soiled, chipped at extremities with some loss, bumped (6)

Condition

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