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PRINCE PRIGIO
Written by Andrew Lang.
Illustrated by Robert Lawson.
Stock no. 1402308
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd..
1st
1945.
Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.
The story of a young prince whose mother didn't believe in fairies and would n't invite them to the christening. They came anyway and one of their gifts was the quality of being too clever which led to the prince being unpopular.Orange cloth boards with blue title to spine and vignette to front board. Pictorial endpapers. B/w illustrations. 108 pages. Spine and corners are bumped and rubbed. Browning to board edges. Couple of marks to rear board. Inscription in ink to front flyleaf. Foxing mainly to endpapers and page edges otherwise contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and creased. Loss to top and bottom of spine with a few closed tears. Some sellotape to verso of wrapper to repair some of the tears.
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- CHILDRENS
- FAIRY TALES
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales, most notably the series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne. The best known are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's Coloured Fairy Books. The Andrew Lang lecture...
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