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Where Can I Buy The Andrew Lang Fairy Books Complete Set?
2026-07-27 14:34:34
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Isla
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I got lucky and found my set at a local library sale for like twenty bucks. It was just sitting there with a bunch of old encyclopedias. The covers are a bit scuffed, but all the pages are there. So my advice is to not just look online—ask at used bookshops, check estate sales, that kind of thing. The books are out there; they just aren’t sitting in a warehouse waiting for a new print run. The Dover reprints are still in print individually, so if you get desperate, you could build the set that way, but it won’t look uniform.
2026-07-29 00:10:01
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Elise
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Project Gutenberg has all the text for free, of course. But if you want physical copies, scanning eBay listings daily is your most reliable method. Set up an alert for 'Andrew Lang fairy book set' and be ready to jump. Prices fluctuate wildly.
2026-07-30 06:16:29
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For a straightforward purchase, the Folio Society produced a beautiful matched set a while back. It’s expensive and you’ll likely only find it secondhand, but the illustrations and binding are stunning. Otherwise, I’d check used bookstores in university towns—they sometimes get academic donations that include these older series. Online, try Biblio alongside the usual suspects; their search filters help sort by edition. Just be prepared to pay more for a verified complete run in decent condition.
2026-08-01 10:09:59
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Finding a complete set of those old Andrew Lang Fairy Books is a bit of a hunt, but that’s part of the fun if you like the vintage feel. I had the best luck on eBay, honestly—you just have to be patient and check the seller’s photos carefully for matching bindings and to make sure none of the twelve volumes are missing. A 'complete set' listing might only have eight books sometimes.
ThriftBooks and AbeBooks are good too, especially if you don’t mind mixing editions; they often have individual volumes you can piece together. I wouldn’t recommend Amazon for a true matched set. The reprint quality from different publishers is all over the place, and the newer paperback collections sometimes condense the stories, which defeats the purpose of having Lang’s original compilations. My own mismatched set took about a year to assemble, but I love the oddball look on the shelf.
ThriftBooks and AbeBooks are good too, especially if you don’t mind mixing editions; they often have individual volumes you can piece together. I wouldn’t recommend Amazon for a true matched set. The reprint quality from different publishers is all over the place, and the newer paperback collections sometimes condense the stories, which defeats the purpose of having Lang’s original compilations. My own mismatched set took about a year to assemble, but I love the oddball look on the shelf.
2026-08-01 16:00:38
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4 Answers2026-07-27 02:31:53
I’ve always been a bit confused about this myself, but after collecting a few and cross-referencing my shelves with online lists, here’s how I understand it. The core series is twelve books, each named after a color: 'The Blue Fairy Book' is the first, then 'Red,' 'Green,' 'Yellow,' 'Pink,' 'Grey,' 'Violet,' 'Crimson,' 'Brown,' 'Orange,' 'Olive,' and finally 'Lilac.' That's the traditional order most collectors go by. They were published between 1889 and 1910.
There's a catch, though. After those twelve, there are a few later volumes like 'The Book of Romance' and 'The All Sorts of Stories Book' that sometimes get lumped in, but they don't have color titles. The color sequence itself doesn't imply a thematic progression; 'Blue' has classics like 'Cinderella' and 'Rumpelstiltskin,' while later ones like 'Crimson' or 'Olive' include more obscure folk tales from wider sources. My 'Olive' book has this haunting Romanian story I've never seen anywhere else.
The organization is basically by publication order, not by difficulty or region. If you're trying to read them all, just follow the color list from Blue to Lilac. Finding a complete matching set in hardcover is my white whale – the later colors are notoriously harder to track down in good condition.
Is the Andrew Lang Fairy Books complete set worth collecting?
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I actually found the complete set for a decent price at a used bookstore a few years back, and I've slowly been making my way through it. It's a very specific kind of reading experience.
If you're expecting polished, modern fairy tales with cohesive themes, you might be disappointed. The Lang collections are more like sprawling archives. He compiled stories from all over the world, and the tone and quality can swing wildly from one tale to the next. You get haunting stuff like 'The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was' right next to borderline nonsensical snippets.
For me, the value isn't in sitting down to read 'The Olive Fairy Book' cover-to-cover like a novel. It's the historical and anthropological curiosity. I'll pick a volume at random, flip to a story from, say, Armenia or Bengal, and get a glimpse into a totally different storytelling tradition. The prose feels old-fashioned, sometimes clunky, but that's part of the charm—it's a direct window into how these stories were presented to English readers over a century ago.
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But that 'complete set' idea is a bit slippery. Some modern omnibus editions also throw in his later collections like 'The Rose Fairy Book' or 'The Strange Story Book', which have more literary and historical tales. You'll find everything from the famous stuff like 'Cinderella' and 'Rumpelstiltskin' in the early volumes, to really obscure ones like 'The Boy Who Found Fear at Last' or 'The House in the Wood' in the later ones.
Honestly, it's a treasure trove but also a bit repetitive in places—you'll see different versions of similar tales. My advice is don't sweat a perfect list. Just dip into any volume; you'll land on a story, often with those wonderful H.J. Ford illustrations.
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