The Orange Fairy Book

Andrew Lang (Editor), Leonora Blanche Lang, et al.

Edité par Longmans, Green, and Co., London, England, 1906

A propos de cet article

First Edition. Original publisher's orange cloth binding. Gilt lettering and small gilt decoration of a fairy on spine. Gilt decoration on front cover shows a scene where many fairies push away the clouds to reveal the sun. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 358 pages, complete. Eight color plates and many black-and-white plates and in-text illustrations, complete. List of Illustrations in front. Illustrations by Henry J. Ford. Pages are very clean and intact overall but one leaf (Pages 73 and 74) was completely torn along the gutter but has been repaired with a few pieces of tape and there are occasional marks and stains and a former owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper dated 1908 on front pastedown. Covers are clean and intact overall but have moderate darkening and slight wear to extremities. Binding is shaken and has a lean toward the fore-edge but is still strong and holding. A Very Good copy. This is the Orange Fairy Book, another installment in the Fairy Book series by Andrew Lang (1844-1912), a Scottish author and literary critic. His Fairy Books are collections of fairy tales that were adapted from their original sources from a variety of cultures. In his Preface, Andrew credits the many contributors who worked on this book. One of those contributors is his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang (nee Alleyne; 1851-1933), an English author, editor, and translator who collaborated with her husband on the Fairy Books series from 1889-1913 in those various capacities. Notably, while Andrew became famous for the Fairy Books series, most of them were written, translated, and edited by Leonora and a small group of other writers, most of whom were women. Andrew writes that Leonora wrote most of the stories in this volume. The following are the titles of the fairy tales herein: "The Story of the Hero Makoma," "The Magic Mirror," "Story of the King who would see Paradise," "How Isuro the Rabbit tricked Gudu," "Ian, the Soldier's Son," "The Fox and the Wolf," "How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Two Caskets," "The Goldsmith's Fortune," "The Enchanted Wreath," "The Foolish Weaver," "The Clever Cat," "The Story of Manus," "Pinkel the Thief," "The Adventures of a Jackal," "The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son," "The Adventures of the Younger Son of the Jackal," "The Three Treasures of the Giants," "The Rover of the Plain," "The White Doe," "The Girl-Fish," "The Owl and the Eagle," "The Frog and the Lion Fairy," "The Adventures of Covan the Brown-haired," "The Princess Bella-Flor," "The Bird of Truth," "The Mink and the Wolf," "Adventures of an Indian Brave," "How the Stalos were Tricked," "Andras Baive," "The White Slipper," and "The Magic Book.".

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Orange Fairy Book
• Éditeur: Longmans, Green, and Co., London, England
• Date de parution: 1906
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Ford, H. J.
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature
  • Foreign Lands
  • Childrens and Illustrated Books