The Rainbow Fairy Book

Lang, Andrew (edited by); Hague, Michael (selected by)

ISBN 10: 0688108784 / ISBN 13: 9780688108786

Edité par William Morrow and Company, NY, 1993

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Signed and illustrated by Michael Hague on ffep verso. First Edition/1st Printing! Decorative end pages, glossy and tight. All page edges are crisp and sound. Blue cloth spine, blue paper boards with light bumping to corners and spine. Unclipped dust jacket, illustrated and mylar sleeved, some light shelf wear to the head and foot of spine. 288pp., including bibliography. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

N° de réf. du vendeur SB11930

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Rainbow Fairy Book
• Éditeur: William Morrow and Company, NY
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0688108784
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780688108786
• Reliure: Cloth Spine/Paper Boards
• Illustrateur: Michael Hague (illustrated by)
• Édition: First Edition/1st Printing.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine (in mylar)
• Signé: Signed By Michael Hague
• Type de livre: Hardcover
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Children's

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Biographie de l'auteur

Lang was born in Selkirk. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited.
He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian. In 1906, he was elected FBA.
He died of angina pectoris at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews.