The Red Fairy Book Agatha Christie Inscription in pen to one

Inscription in pen to one of the blank FFEPs of The Sleeping Beauty

Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters

Binding is tight (although not as on a new copy)

and a little foxing to edges and prelims

With 14 plates guarded by captioned tissues

The Red Fairy Book Agatha Christie Inscription in pen to oneLANG, Andrew (Edited by). The Red Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1980. First edition. Illustrated throughout by H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed with a monochrome frontispiece, many monochrome vignettes and three monochrome plates. Publisher's red cloth, gilt decoration and lettering to upper cover and spine, purple endpapers. Fair only, with covers soiled and stained, with spine discoloured and cloth pulling apart from the joints, with