£945
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., all 8vo unless otherwise stated.
The Arabian Nights Entertainment, 1898, first edition, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, 33 plates, spine rolled, extremities slightly rubbed, inner hinges cracked with webbing exposed, ownership inscriptions to half-title and recto of frontispiece, half-title slightly marked, ink-stain to head of title-page and dedication leaf (with concomitant paper-erosion to latter);
Old Friends among the Fairies. Puss in Boots and Other Stories, 1926. 4to, original green pictorial cloth, 4 tipped-in colour plates, dust jacket (with a few nicks);
The Book of Princes and Princesses by Mrs Lang. Edited by Andrew Lang, 1908, first edition, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, 8 colour plates, spine slightly rolled, light rubbing to extremities, tips bumped;
Tales of Troy and Greece, 1907, first edition, original cloth, 18 plates;
The Book of Romance, 1902, first edition, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, 8 colour plates;
The Red Romance Book, 1905, first edition, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, 8 colour plates (plate facing p. 264 detached), spine faded, covers marked;
Together with approx. 25 others including 6 other Andrew Lang titles, several Walter Crane titles, etc. (30+)