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Published by Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1891
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Publishers decorative blue cloth gilt, good used condition, some wear & marks, spine edges rubbed at top & bottom, corners rubbed, inner hinges straining, etc.
First Edition. 190mm x 140mm (7" x 6"). xx, 351pp. B/w plates and additional illustrations by H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Covers rubbed. Spine darkened. Some foxing within Blue gilt illustrated hardback cloth cover.
Published by Longmans, Green and Co., London 1891, 1891
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. xx, 351pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titles and illustrations, all edges gilt. Covers slightly worn and marked, slight rubbing to spine, inner front hinge starting, a couple of small marks to prelims, otherwise very good. Inscription to endpaper. No jacket.
Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London and New York, 1891
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. H J Ford and Lancelot Speed (illustrator). 1st Edition. A very good copy of the first edition in the original blue gilt-decorated cloth binding with numerous black and white illustrations by Speed and H J Ford. All page edges gilt. Part of the Fairy Book series, this was the third published. The binding is bright and clean with bright gilt decoration to the front board. The spine is slightly darker with a small pale mark near the rear spine joint about half way up. The back board is very clean with a paler area along the spine joint at the bottom and a tiny scuff on the top edge. There is light pulling to the spine and some wear and light turning to corners. The original black endpapers are present with the bookplate of Castlecraig Library to the front pastedown. The contents are complete, clean and sound. There is light fox spotting through the volume with some pages clear, some with the odd spot and some with light freckle spotting. There is a small ink mark at p22 and the bottom corners to pp 181/2 and 183/4 have been miss-cut in binding. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.
Published by Longmans, Green and Co. 1891, London, 1891
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Gilt Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. SPEED, Lancelot and Ford, H.J. (Illustraions by) (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. xx, 351 pp. Publisher's original gilt decorated blue cloth. All edges gilt. With numerous black & white illustrations by H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. Rubbing to spine and edges with some chipping to cloth at spine and small marks to boards. Slight lean to binding and some minor grubbying and spots internally. No ownership markings. 8vo. Illustrated.
Published by Longman, Green & Co, London, 1891
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Ford, H.J. (illustrator). 1st ed. 1st ptg. 12mo, full blue cloth, gilt illustration to cover and spine, the third collaboration between Lang and H.J. Ford who contributes black and white drawings along with Lancelot Speed. Small tear to top of front endpaper, inner hinges weak, head and foot of spine show light wear, else very good.
Published by Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1891
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 351; illustrated throughout; mild dampstain in lower margin of the first three gatherings, as well as at the back corner of the rear cover; all else very good and bright in original pictorial blue cloth, showing a lad with a lyre, and a leopard, a lion, and a lizard in front of a lake, a.e.g.
Published by Longmans,Green And Co, London and New York, 1891
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. H.J. Ford and Lancelot Speed (illustrator). First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original elaborate decorated blue hardcover cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine.The book has black endpapers and is complete with half title page,frontispiece and engraved title page.This copy has no previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.There is a little dulling to the colour tone alonmg spine and with some slight wear along spine edges and to the head of the spine.All page edges are gilt lined.The book's contents remain clean internally apart from an odd spotting mark to the page margins.profusely illustrated with many black and white engraved plates by Ford and lancelot speed.A more than decent copy for the collector,8vo (xx) 351pp First Edition 1st Issue [1891].
Published by Longmans, Green and Co. 1891, London, 1891
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Gilt Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. SPEED, Lancelot and Ford, H.J. (Illustraions by) (illustrator). First Edition. xx, 351 pp. Publisher's original gilt decorated cloth. All edges gilt. Rubbing to spine ends. Small tear to corner of one leaf. Some light spotting to prelims. No ownership names. With numerous black & white illustrations by H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. 8vo. Illustrated.
Published by LONGMANS, GREEN & CO, LONDON 1891 & 1899, 1899
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. BOTH BOOKS ARE FIRST EDITIONS. HARDBACKS BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL GILT DECORATED CLOTH BINDINGS, FRONTIS TO EACH BOOK PLUS NUMEROUS FULL PAGE BLACK & WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS + ILLUSTRATIONS AMONG TEXT. BOOKS MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES. MINOR WEAR AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINES WITH SOME LIGHT RUBBING & MINOR MARKS TO COVERS, SPINE OF THE RED BOOK SLIGHTLY FADED, CORNERS BUMPED, OCCASIONAL FOXING OR MINOR MARKS TO PAGES & ENDPAPERS ON BOTH BOOKS, BOTH BOOKS WITH AN INSCRIPTION FROM THE 1890's TO FRONT ENDPAPERS. OVERALL BOTH IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH NO CRACKING TO INNER HINGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Published by Longmans, London, 1891
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford, 12mo, handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full blue polished calf with ornately gilt spine and red leather spine labels, a.e.g. London, Longmans, Green, 1891. First Edition. A very good(+) copy.
Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London and New York, 1891
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Quarter Parchment. Condition: Very Good. Limited and Numbered First Edition. # 15 of 150 copies printed. Original quarter white parchment over grey paper covered boards, five raised bands and title at spine printed in blue, Very Good, spine browned and with two small stains, joints starting to open yet still holding well, corners rubbed, end pages toned, prior owner gift inscription in pencil front end page. The poem "In Helena's Garden" by Richard Watson Gilder pasted onto recto of 2nd front end page, laid in at rear the poem "O Music" by Harriet Prescott Spofford from a contemporary magazine. Size: Tall 8vo. Limited Edition.