The Brown Fairy Book First edition.
by Lang, Andrew
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. First edition, 1904. Hardback. 8vo. [i - vii], viii - xiii, [1], 2 - 350pp. Brown boards with gilt design to upper board and gilt to spine. All edge gilt. Decorated end papers. No jacket. Thirty-two tales in this collection edited by Andrew lang. Illustrated b y H. J. Ford (Henry Justice Ford). Eight full page colour illustrations, including frontispiece which has a tissue guard, twenty-two full page black & white illustrations and twenty black & white illustrations in the text. Book in good condition. Extremities of spine a little rubbed and spine cover lightly creased. Previous owner's name to front fly leaf. Occasional crack to gutter but text block firmly bound. A few slight marks here and there and a couple of minor creases to page corners.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1308449
- Title
- The Brown Fairy Book First edition.
- Author
- Lang, Andrew
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1904
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Andrew Lang
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated;
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About the Seller
Ariadne Books
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.