Buy this book on-line LANG,ANDREW:** : THE TRUE STORY BOOK.**LONDON.LONGMANS,GREEN & CO.,1893.
UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.VG+.
No owner inscrptn,no bookplates or prize labels,no dw/dj,as issued.Bright, clean, publisher's original, plain dark blue cloth bds with gilt, stamped pictorial design, comprising of a galleon leaving a moonlit shore, with a uniformed officer waving goodbye with his tricorn hat, to the ship, and stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and black eps.All edges gilt, front hinge slightly cracked.
Slightly foxed half-title page, tissue-guarded frntis, b/w vignetted title page.
B/w illus by; BOGLE, LUCIEN, SPEED, H.J.FORD;et al.24 stories include, amongst
others:Casanova's escape, Cervantes, John Foxe, John Rawlins, French Freebooters, the Spartan 300, Lief the Lucky, Conquest of Montezuma, etc.A good, clean, solid and sound copy.
Lang was the editor of fairy tale collections (Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Violet,etc..Fairy Books - 12 in all).This is Andrew Lang's first offering of 'True Stories', which was then followed by 'The Red True Story Book' in 1895.
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A very good copy indeed in the original ultramarine blue pictorial cloth gilt, light wear to spine ends, a.e.g.,slight dulling to spine, som elight scattered foxing to preliminary leaves but in general an extremely attractive copy with the hinges intact and the text clean and tight Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of LANG, Andrew (Edited by) : The True Story Book. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, first editions, incunabula, used books and livres d'occasion. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |