Amy Barry's Reviews > 12 Books in 1: Andrew Lang's Complete "Fairy Book" Series. The Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange, Olive, and Lilac Fairy ... and Fairy Stories From Around The World.

12 Books in 1 by Andrew Lang
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The publishing of this is truly dreadful. There is no complete table of contents, no clear divisions between stories, and the cover stock is very shabby. A basic rule of desktop publishing is to use similar graphic images throughout a piece. The cover and spine of this book look like stock clip art and a stock photo, I could have done better. I do not understand why they did not use one of the original illustrations used in the Andrew Lang series of books. To be honest, I only bought this because I wanted all the stories in one volume. Now, I wish I had sprung for buying each volume individually.

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message 1: by Jenn (new)
18 de Nov 21:14

Jenn I just wanted to ask you a question. I have 8 of the books,individual and hard-bound, and I am perplexed that this book that has all 12 of them in one spot is less pages than all the individual ones put together. Since you have read both, do you think some of the text is missing? Can the font really be that different that they could squeeze all 12 books into one? Do I have some weird editions? I put all the books together (and this was just 8 of them) and it was as long as a ruler! I looked for this 12-in one book, but couldn't find it at my library, just the individual ones.

Thanks for any info before I dive into all these books!
Jenn


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