LANG. COLLECTION OF STORY BOOKS, 1893-1913 (4 VOL.)

i) The True Story Book. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1893. 8vo (180 x 120mm.), FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, plates, and other illustrations by L. Bogle, Lucien David, H. J. Ford, C. H. M. Kerr and Lancelot Speed, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, black endpapers, all edges gilt, previous ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper, minor spotting, small abrasion to lower cover, bumped ii) The Red True Story Book. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895. 8vo (180 x 117mm.), FIRST EDITION, plates and woodcut illustrations by H. J. Ford, original pictorial red cloth gilt, black endpapers, all edges gilt, boards slightly soiled, bumped iii) The Strange Story Book. By Mrs Lang. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913. 8vo (182 x 125mm.), FIRST EDITION, photographic portrait frontispiece, colour plates and other illustrations by H. J. Ford, original pictorial red cloth, spine gilt, top edge gilt, browning, spine sunned iv) All Sorts of Stories Book. By Mrs Lang. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911. 8vo (179 x 119mm.), FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, plates and other illustrations by H. J. Ford, original pictorial red cloth gilt,  all edges gilt, previous ownership inscription in ink on half-title, dust-jacket, dust-jacket slightly soiled, worn, chipping at edges (4)

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