Oct 01, 2009 - Sale 2188

Sale 2188 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Lang, Andrew. The Fairy Books. A complete set of 12 volumes. Illustrated with plates, endpapers, and covers by H. J. Ford, G. P. Jacomb Hood, and Lancelot Speed. 8vo, publisher's original gilt-pictorial cloth, most in very good condition and still bright, some vulnerable spines (like Pink, Red, and Lilac) faded, scattered light rubbing and occasional fraying to spine ends; hinges repaired in first three volumes, inked owner's signatures or inscriptions in Blue, Brown, Olive, Pink, Orange, Lilac, and Violet Fairy Books; some internal foxing in a few volumes; lacking dust jackets. London: Longmans & Co., 1889-1910
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complete and lovely set of the classic fairy tales created by Lang and his wife Leonora. Titles include Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange, Olive and Lilac.
In the preface to the Green Fairy Book, which was the third, he states that it will probably be the final volume. In the preface to the fourth, The Yellow Fairy Book, he thanks all the children who urged him to create yet another. The popular series continued through 1910 and spawned the series of Story Books as well. Osborne Collection I, pp. 34-36, and II, p. 604.