Lang, Andrew

The Green Fairy Book

Andrew Lang [ed] · 1892 · Rooke Books

£590.00 (€706.24 | $783.15 | ¥125,216)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1892. Hardback. The scarce limited large paper edition of Andrew Lang's beloved green fairy book, illustrated throughout with Ford's stunning plates. The limited edition, large paper edition. Number 112 out of one hundred and fifty co...

The Red Book of Animal Stories

Andrew Lang [editor] · 1928 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.90 | $46.46 | ¥7,428)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1928. Cloth. A smart new impression of this illustrated collection of stories about creatures and animals both real and imagined, from Andrew Lang. New impression. Illustrated with a frontispiece, numerous vignettes, and thirty-one plates. Coll...

The All Sorts of Stories Book

Mrs. Lang; Andrew Lang · 1911 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.58 | $185.83 | ¥29,712)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this uncommon story anthology by Leonora Lang, complete with colour plates. The first edition of this uncommon work, with no gilt to the front board.An anthology of charming stories comp...

The Grey Fairy Book

Andrew Lang · 1900 · Rooke Books

£740.00 (€885.79 | $982.26 | ¥157,051)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1900. First edition. Cloth. Andrew Lang's grey collection of fairy tales, a lovely volume of his popular series, complete with H. J. Ford's plates. The first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-one plates...

Poets&Apos; Country

Andrew Lang [editor] · 1907 · Rooke Books

£58.00 (€69.43 | $76.99 | ¥12,309)

London, T. C. & E. C Jack Ltd, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of this work that explores the poets and their places, with colour illustrations throughout. First edition. Illustrated with fifty coloured plates. Collated complete. This volume traces the ...

Beauty and the Beast

Andrew Lang · 1909 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,334.17 | $2,588.39 | ¥413,851)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce work by Andrew Lang, collecting together some of his most popular tales from his 'Fairy Books', the first edition of this illustrated work. The first edition of this very scarce work.A compila...

Le Morte Darthur

Syr Thomas Malory; H Oskar Sommer; Andrew Lang · 1889 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.03 | $431.40 | ¥68,975)

London, David Nutt, 1889. Cloth. Syr Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte Darthur', the text in two uniform large paper volumes. Two volumes of text. Complete thus. Uncommon. The original edition of William Caxton reprinted and edited with an introduction and glossary by ...

Waverley Novels

Sir Walter Scott; Andrew Lang [ed.] · 1898 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€592.52 | $657.05 | ¥105,055)

London, John C Nimmo , 1898-99. Cloth. A complete group of twenty four volumes in uniform bindings of the famous Waverley Novels by Walter Scott. Large Type Border edition of the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott. Complete in twenty-four volumes in the original publisher&apo...

Ballads and Lyrics of Old France

Andrew Lang · 1872 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.55 | $199.11 | ¥31,835)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1872 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition first print of Andrew Lang's first book, a lovely collection of ballads, lyrics, and poems. First edition, in original publisher's cloth binding, of Andrew Lang's collection of ballads...

The Red Book of Heroes

Mrs. Lang [Leonora Blanche Alleyne] ; Andrew Lang (Ed) · 1909 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.31 | $130.08 | ¥20,799)

London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta, Longmans, Green and Co. 1909. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful first edition copy of this biographical book for children, which contains information on various historical 'heroes', with vivid colour plates by A. Wallis Mills. F...

Animal Land Where There Are No People

Sybil Corbet; Katharine Corbet; Andrew Lang · 1898 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.25 | $331.85 | ¥53,058)

London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1898. Cloth. A very scarce third edition of this charming and very entertaining children's collection of poems on a land where there are only animals. A very scarce work. The third edition of this work. All editions are very scarce. This work is a...

The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairy Land

Andrew Lang · 1884 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€418.95 | $464.58 | ¥74,281)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1884. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this classic fairy tale by Andrew Lang, with Richard Doyle's whimsical illustrations. A scarce first edition of this charming children's book by Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, novelist and collect...

The Grey Fairy Book

Andrew Lang · 1900 · Rooke Books

£430.00 (€514.71 | $570.77 | ¥91,259)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1900. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of this delightful anthology, the sixth in Andrew Lang's popular 'Coloured Fairy Books' series. First edition.In the publisher's decorative cloth binding. With lovely ill...

Theocritus, Bion and Moschus

Andrew Lang [trans.] · 1889 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.84 | $73.01 | ¥11,673)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1889. Vellum. A limited large paper edition of these ancient Greek pastoral poems rendered by Andrew Lang, in the publisher's scarce limp vellum binding. One of two hundred and fifty copies of this large paper edition, printed in June 1889.In a s...

Theocritus, Bion & Moschus, Rendered Into English by Andrew Lang: The Idyls of Theocritus; the Idyls of Bion & Moschus

Theocritus; Bion of Smyrna; Moschus of Syracuse; Andrew Lang [trans.] · 1922 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€472.82 | $524.32 | ¥83,831)

London, The Medici Society, 1922. Cloth. Illustrated with colour plates, here are two volumes of classical bucolic and pastoral poetry translated into English by fairy tale collector Andrew Lang. A limited edition work. Limited editions of the first editions of Andrew Lang&apo...

The Book of Omar and Rubãƒâ¡Iyãƒâ¡T, Being a Book of Miscellanies -- Biographical, Historical, Bibliographical and Pictorial Notes on Omar Khayyam of Naishapur and His Inspired Quatrians

Multiple, including Richard Le Gallienne, Owen Seaman, Edwin Gosse, Andrew Lang, and Alfred Tennyson. · 1900 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.63 | $165.92 | ¥26,529)

New York and London, The Bankside Press, 1900. First edition. Hardback. This scarce first edition, first impression of an illustrated, miscellaneous collection of items relating the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, in the original publisher's pictorial paper wraps. The first ...

The Nursery Rhyme Book

Andrew Lang · 1898 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.78 | $99.55 | ¥15,917)

London; New York, Frederick Warne and Co. 1898. Cloth. An early edition of Andrew Lang's book of nursery rhymes, delightfully illustrated by L. Leslie Brook. An early edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the spine. Al...

The Red Book of Heroes

Mrs. Lang [Leonora Blanche Alleyne]; Andrew Lang [ed.] · 1909 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.73 | $119.46 | ¥19,101)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1909. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this children's story collection on historical 'heroes', illustrated with colour plates throughout. The first edition of this work.In the publisher's original cloth with illus...

The Chronicles of Pantouflia, As Notably the Adventures of Prigio, Prince of That Country, and of His Son, Ricardo

Andrew Lang · 1932 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.64 | $159.29 | ¥25,468)

London, Arrowsmith, 1932. Cloth. The collected stories of Prince Prigio and Prince Ricardo by Andrew Lang, complete with the illustrations of Gordon Browne and original scarce dust wrapper. In the original scarce unclipped dust wrapper.Andrew Lang's collected stories abou...

The Grey Fairy Book

Andrew Lang · 1900 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€526.68 | $584.05 | ¥93,382)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1900. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this anthology from Andrew Lang's immensely popular collection of sweet and moralistic fairy tales for children. Lang was a pioneer in his field as he used such a wide variety of sources. Ma...