![]() ![]() Six of the volumes are First Folio printings (Green, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown & Orange), four are Second printings (Red, Yellow, Olive and Lilac) and two are Third printings (Blue and Pink). Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 16548 Photos available upon request. Ford Language: English Binding: Hardcover secure Decorative pink cloth Size: ~7.25in X 5.25in (18.5cm x 13.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages viii,, 360 Includes 34 full-page engravings as well as many in-text illustrations of H.J. The Pink Fairy Book includes 41 stories that tell of goblins, trolls, mermaids, and witches from the folklore of Japanese, Scandinavian, and Sicilian tales! However, the most famous story from this book is The Snow Queen which is based on Hans Christian Andersen s original story the basis for Disney s animated feature Frozen! Item number: #16548 Price: $599 LANG, Andrew The Pink Fairy Book London New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. The collection includes nearly 800 stories both true and fiction all of which feature impressive illustrations throughout. 1897 1st ed Pink Fairy Book Snow Queen Andrew Lang Illustrated DISNEY Frozen Once upon a time Andrew Lang s Fairy Books are a series of children stories that were published in a collection of colors. Closed tear to page 91and loss, not affecting the text to the extremity of page 195. Contemporary ink inscription to front blank. Pages bright and clean with just the odd spot and handling mark, heavier to the first and last few pages and the tissue guard for the frontispiece. Fading to the boards, as is common with this work. Externally generally smart with wear to the extremities resulting in some fraying and loss to the cloth. In the original pink cloth with gilt pictorial detail. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, a noted English illustrator who is best known for his beautiful illustrations for Lang's works. He was a Scottish poet, novelist, and literary critic. Andrew Lang is best known for these collections of fairy tales, and was an avid collector of folk and fairy tales. The Pink Fairy Book contains forty one tales, all of which based on stories and folklore from Japan, Sicily and Scandinavia, the most notable of which being The Snow Queen. The frontispiece has retained its tissue guard. The title page vignette and one further vignette have been tastefully hand coloured. With a frontispiece, thirty three full page engravings and numerous vignette illustrations. The first edition, first impression with no further impressions stated. The first edition of the fifth book in Lang's noted fairy book series, complete with illustrations by H. Occasional light marking otherwise.Ĭloth. There are 2 flattened creases to the rear free endpaper and a number of top page corners have been turned over at one time, leaving light flattened creases. The contents page has had the contents marked off. There is toning to the page margins, particularly the top margin and a persistent small stain at the top page edge from circa p170 to 257. The back board is clean with some faint marking and fading close to the spine. It has been rebacked with the original spine relaid onto matching cloth, so the book is sound and tight. The binding has delicate gilt illustration to the front board which is bright. With numerous black and white illustrations by H J Ford. ![]() A good copy of the 1st edition in the original pink decorative cloth binding with all page edges gilt.
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