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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; xi p., 1 l., 265 p. col. front. (port.) 22 cm ; LCCN: 46-23247 ; LC: PR4877; Dewey: 928.2 ; OCLC: 250504 ; "First published October, 1946." ; blue cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents: To Andrew Lang -- A Border Boyhood -- Edinburgh Academy -- St. Andrews and Glasgow -- Balliol and Merton -- The Lost Poet -- The Divine Amateur -- Mythologist and Classical Scholar -- The Master of Fairyland -- Fairnilee and Pantouflia -- The Approach to Romance -- The World's Desire -- The Romance of History -- The Literary Critic -- Lang and His Friends -- The Last Years -- Before and After -- Epilogue -- Key to Reference numbers -- Appendix A: The Odyssey Translations -- Appendix B: Andrew Lang's Prologue to 'The World's Desire' -- Appendix C: Articles and Notes on Andrew Lang -- A Short-Title Bibliography of the Works of Andrew Lang -- Addenda to bibliography. ; Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green was a member of the Inklings circle of writers, which included J R R Tolkien, Owen Barfield, Dorothy Sayers and C S Lewis; it was green who suggested the name of Lewis' childrens' book should be The Chronicles of Narnia ; here he writes the biography of the influential 19th century compiler of fairytales, the folklorist Andrew Lang ; with a color frontispiece by W B Richmond ; foxing to textblock ; store stamp of the noted Atlanta bookstore, C E Cantrell's; (Cantrell himself was the author of a mystical book about angels and Georgia's Stone Mountain) ; VG. Book.…

Leather-bound. Condizione: Very Good. v.1-10, "complete in ten volumes" plus "supplementary volumes" numbers [1]-2. All bound uniformly in three quarter red leather and marble boards, top edges gilt with gilt spine lettering and decoration. Illustrated with numerous "contemporary" black & white illustrations. Also includes Index to v.1-10 in back of v.10. Top edges of spines frayed, else a clean, unmarked copy, still a very handsome set. "Stoddard (18501931) was an American writer, hymn writer and lecturer who gained popularity through his travelogues. Stoddard was a proponent of the restoration of the Jews to Israel. However, his son Lothrop held antisemitic and white supremacist views." [Wikipedia].…