The Pink Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang, Leonora Blanche Lang
The Pink Fairy Book is the fifth coloured Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang, first published by Longmans, Green and Co. in London in 1897. Illustrated by H. J. Ford, it gathers 41 Japanese, Scandinavian and Sicilian tales, among them The Snow Queen and The Fir Tree.
- Editions tracked
- 2
- First published
- Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1897
The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang was first published in 1897. We track 2 editions.
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- Longmans, Green1897 Hardback · Andrew Lang's Fairy Books 5 I own The Pink Fairy Book, Longmans, Green 1897 Log in to want this
- Longmans, Green1906 Hardback · Andrew Lang's Fairy Books 5 I own The Pink Fairy Book, Longmans, Green 1906 Log in to want this
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Awards, adaptations and setting
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- 271 on Open Library, 260 in English
- Free to read
- Project Gutenberg (out of copyright in the US)
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How many editions of The Pink Fairy Book are there?
We track 2 editions of The Pink Fairy Book. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
When was The Pink Fairy Book first published?
The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, Leonora Blanche Lang was first published in 1897.
Can I read The Pink Fairy Book for free?
Yes: the text is out of copyright in the United States and free to read on Project Gutenberg. Collectors still pay for the first edition, which is the physical object, not the words.
Where these facts come from
- The Langs' Fairy Books, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- The Pink Fairy Book (1897 edition), Wikidata (wikidata.org)
- Andrew Lang's Coloured Fairy Books, Lilly Library Blog, Indiana University, 2016 (blogs.libraries.indiana.edu)
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