$40 · 1977 The Rainbow Fairy Book - Andrew Lang - Rare Copy

The Rainbow Fairy Book - A Selection of Outstanding Fairy Tales from the Color Fairy Books - Andrew Lang.   Published in 1977 by Schocken Books, New York.   Rare Second Edition Copy.   Edited by Kathleen Lines with an Epiloque by Roger Lancelyn Green.   Illustrations by Margery Gill.   Paperback. All 252 are pages clean and secure.   Nice clean uncommon copy.   Black and white illustrations throughout. Book Synopsis (Goodreads): Here are thirty-one enchanting selections drawn from Andrew Lang's famous series of colorfully titled fairy tale anthologies. Scholar, poet, novelist, and literary critic, Lang tirelessly collected magical stories from cultures all over the world—stories, according to Lang, that "have been inherited by our earliest civilized ancestors, who really believed that beasts and trees and stones can talk if they choose, and behave kindly or unkindly.