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The Brown fairy book
by LANG, Andrew
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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About This Item
1904 1st ed Brown Fairy Book Andrew Lang Mermaids Elves Native American Indians
"Once upon a time…"
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of children stories that were published in a collection of "colors." The collection includes nearly 800 stories both true and fiction. The Brown Fairy Book contains stories of Native American Indians, Australian Bushmen, African Kaffirs, and other stories from Persia, Lapland, and India. While most of the stories have truths of these cultures, the stories include portrayals of elves, mermaids, and wicked wolverines! See below for a full list of the titles.
Item number: #40101
Price: $599
LANG, Andrew
The Brown fairy book
London; New York : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. First edition.
Details:
· Collation: Complete
o xiii, [1], 350
o 49 illustrations
7 color-plates
22 full-page plates
20 in-text
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; secure
o Brown decorative cloth
· Size: ~7.25in X 5.25in (18.5cm x 13cm)
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Synopsis
From the book:The stories in this Fairy Book come from all quarters of the world. For example, the adventures of 'Ball-Carrier and the Bad One' are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink. 'The Bunyip' is known to even more uneducated little ones, running about with no clothes at all in the bush, in Australia. You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in 'Northern Races of Central Australia,' by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen. They have no lessons except in tracking and catching birds, beasts, fishes, lizards, and snakes, all of which they eat. But when they grow up to be big boys and girls, they are cruelly cut about with stone knives and frightened with sham bogies all for their good' their parents say and I think they would rather go to school, if they had their choice, and take their chance of being birched and bullied. However, many boys might think it better fun to begin to learn hunting as soon as they can walk. Other stories, like 'The Sacred Milk of Koumongoe,' come from the Kaffirs in Africa, whose dear papas are not so poor as those in Australia, but have plenty of cattle and milk, and good mealies to eat, and live in houses like very big bee-hives, and wear clothes of a sort, though not very like our own.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40101
- Title
- The Brown fairy book
- Author
- LANG, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co
- Place of Publication
- London; New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1904 1st ed Brown Fairy Book Andrew Lang Mermaids Elves Native American Indians, rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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