Andrew Lang by Green, Roger Lancelyn - 1946

Leicester: Edmund Ward. Fine copy in good dust jacket. 1946. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 265 pp. .

The Leeman Press, 1972. Soft. Good-. 8vo,81/4. Good-. General wear and marking on covers. Corners little bumped. Light foxed to extremities. Mild page browned internally. 38pp.

Leicester, England: Edmund Ward, 1946. Hard Cover. Good (see description)/Good (see description). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cover cloth is loose (as if bubbling) around edges, particularly in front, otherwise book in Good to Very Good condition. Dust jacket spine has 1/2" piece missing from top, and a tear that goes from there about an inch into front cover, otherwise Good Plus condition. 265 pp..

Leicester: Ward. Very Good-. [1946]. Hardcover. Light pencil marginalia; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xi, 265p. , index. .

Leicester, UK: Edmund Ward, 1946. 8vo, pp. 265. Frontis portrait. Owner's signature on flyleaf, bookplate on pastedown, cover little stained and worn, o/w VG. Bporn in 1844 in Scotland, Lang was a critic and author of books for children, as well as a poet and novelist.

Edmund Ward, 1946. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1946. First Edition. 265 pages. Laminated pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Heavy pen inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.

Leicester: De Montfort, 1946. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(+). Colored frontis. 265 pages. 8vo, blue cloth, dust wrapper. Wrapper is price-clipped and worn. Leicester: De Montfort, (1946).<br/><br/>

Leicester, UK: Edmund Ward, 1946. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 265. References, appendices, bibliography, index. Frontis portrait. A VG tight copy in chipped dj.

Leicester, UK: Edmund Ward, 1946. First printing. Hard Cover. NEAR-FINE (SLIGHT FOXING) IN NEAR-FINE DJ WITH ORIGINAL 15s PRICE.

Leicester, England: Edmund Ward, 1946. First printing with "First published October, 1946" so stated on the copyright page. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. The whites parts of the jacket (i.e. rear panel) are lightly soiled. NO chips. NO fading. Protected by a removable mylar clear-plastic sleeve. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. From the dust jacket: "The present book is the first attempt that has so far been made to view Andrew Lang's work as a whole, and to attempt some account of the man himself. In specialised fields of scholarship Lang has always held his own; but as a literary figure he has been sadly neglected. Yet the late Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch ranked his style above that of Pater and Stevenson and Kenneth Grahame, and George Saintsbury considered him as among the chief minor poets of his period. As poet and… Read More