The Blue Fairy Book

by Andrew Lang

$10,000 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

London: Vizetelly & Co., 1889. First Edition. 8vo 188 x132mm , pp. viii, 390. The first of Lang's fairy books, the best of them and the scarcest. Blue cloth decorated and titled inn gilt, coated black dark brown? endpapers. A fine copy, with a small stain to the recto of the read endpaper and points of rubbing at a couple extremities of the incredibly delicate glossy cloth. Half morocco box. illustrations by H.J. Ford

• Binding: Leather

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