THE BROWN FAIRY BOOK

First edition, first printing. Original brown cloth elaborately illustrated in gilt, titles to the spine in gilt. All edges gilt. Endpapers illustrated in silver. With eight colour plates and black and white illustrations throughout by H. J. Ford. A very good copy, the binding firm, the gilt bright, the extremities a little rubbed, the corners and spine tips with very slight bumping. The contents, with some light spotting to the prelims and occasionally to the margins, are otherwise clean and without stamps or inscriptions. The plates are complete and in fine condition.

The 9th of Andrew Lang's 12 Fairy Books. Comprising What the Rose did to the Cypress, Ball-Carrier and the Bad One, How Ball-Carrier finished his Task, The Bunyip, Father Grumbler, The Story of the Yara, The Cunning Hare, The Turtle and his Bride, How Geirald the Coward was Punished, Habogi, How the Little Brother set Free his Big Brothers, The Sacred Milk of Koumongoe, The Wicked Wolverine, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter, The Mermaid and the Boy, Pivi and Kabo, The Elf Maiden, How Some Wild Animals became Tame Ones, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter, The Enchanted Head, The Sister of the Sun, The Prince and the Three Fates, The Fox and the Lapp, Kisa the Cat, The Lion and the Cat, Which was the Foolishest?, Asmund and Signy, Rübezahl, Story of the King who would be Stronger than Fate, Story of Wali Dad the Simple-hearted, Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey, and The Knights of the Fish.