The Blue Fairy Book
by LANG, ANDREW (Ed) & HOLMES, M. DODGE (Intro) & RICHARDSON, FREDERICK (Illus)
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About This Item
The John C. Winston Company 1930. Octavo, blue cloth boards, black lettering to spine, illus plate to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xi + 396pp, illus, VG- (2cm crack to top spine hinge, moderate chafing to spine, light scuffing & bruising to board edges, light staining to rear board, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name to ffep, moderate cracking to gutters towards front of book, half title page v loose, 4cm closed tear to bottom of pg 217)
Synopsis
The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries and were translated by Lang's wife and other translators who also retold many of the tales. The collection has been incalculably important and, although he did not source the stories himself direct from the oral tradition he can make claim to the first English translation of many.First published in 1889, The Blue Fairy Bookis the 1st volume in this series.
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- The Blue Fairy Book
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- LANG, ANDREW (Ed) & HOLMES, M. DODGE (Intro) & RICHARDSON, FREDERICK (Illus)
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- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Company 1930
- Keywords
- short stories fairies blue fairy Andrew Lang children's literature illustrated
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