Red Fairy Book

Lang, Andrew (collected by); Alderson, Brian (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0722651295 / ISBN 13: 9780722651292

Published by Kestrel, Harmondsworth, 1976

About this Item

Hardcover in very good condition with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is sunned at spine with some taped repairs to the same, edgeworn with tears to front lower edge. Board corners and spine ends lightly bumped and small marks to page block face. Pages are clean throughout and spine is tight. AD.

Seller Inventory # 520935

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Fairy Book
• Publisher: Kestrel, Harmondsworth
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0722651295
• ISBN 13: 9780722651292
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Jaques, Faith
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

The famed folklorist collects 37 tales of enchantment, ranging from the familiar ("Rapunzel," "Jack and the Beanstalk," and "The Golden Goose") to lesser-known stories ("The Voice of Death," "The Enchanted Pig," and "The Master Thief"). Sources include French, Russian, Danish, and Romanian tales as well as Norse mythology. 97 illustrations.

About the Author

Lang was born in Selkirk. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados. She was (or should have been) variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited.
He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. He soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day as a journalist, poet, critic, and historian. In 1906, he was elected FBA.
He died of angina pectoris at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews.