Search Results: Fairy Tales By Hans Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen

NY: Weathervane Books. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered and toned, large closed . tear to rear jacket panel.. N.D.. Reprint. Hardcover. 0517225557 . Brown cloth spine with green blindstamped boards. Silhouette illustrated endpapers. Twelve color plates and numerous other black and white illustrations by Rackham. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages .

The Planet, 2012. Paperback. New. 186 pages. 11.00x0.44x8.50 inches.

Andersen, Hans Christian, 1924. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Viby, Jutland, Denmark: Nordic Paper Industry, 1949. First edition thus. Rare, charming, eleven volume set of Andersen's most famous fairy tales in miniature w/the original ornamental case. Books measure approx. 2.25" x 3.25". Fully illustrated in vivid colour by Svend Jensen of Denmark. Card covers are of assorted colors and illustrated front and back, generally moderate wear. Pages in good condition. Endps. adhered to covers. Includes the scarce, ornamentally designed box depicting several story scenes for storage w/some dent, bend, sticker-pull. Front of box depicts Hans Andersen reading to children in oak grove w/castle rising in b.g., sides depict child in at sleep w/starry sky and magical elfen being holding umbrella above; and other is of king of Orient w/nightingale outside his window; inside flaps, a room w/king wearing red and white vestment opening a large book chest on checkerboard floor. These volumes are highly collectable and beautiful objects in their own… Read More

Garden City, N. Y.: Garden City Publishing, 1932. Red cloth boards, black stamped spine titles, moderate wear, rub. Kay Nielsen full-size, color plate set to front cover. Frontispiece color plate of The Tinder Box w/eight color plates and black and white images throughout by Nielsen. Illustrations match the coveted, original 1924 Hodder & Stoughton edition. Pages very good. Bind good. Tales include: The Tinder Box; Great Claus and Little Claus; The Real Princess; The Hardy Tin Soldier; The Flying Trunk; Ole Luk-Oie; The Swineherd; The Nightingale; The Snow Queen; The Red Shoes; The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweeper; The Shadow; The Shirt Collar; The Bottle-Neck; The Elder Tree Mother; and, The Story of a Mother. 272 pages. Insured post.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. Illus. by Nielsen, Kay; Federer, C.A. (Illustrators). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Viby, Jutland, Denmark: Nordic Paper Industry, 1949. First edition thus. Rare, charming 12 volume set of Andersen's most famous fairy tales in miniature. Books measure approx. 2.25" x 3.25". Dating from 1949, the set contains unabridged translations of the following fairy tales: The Tinder Box, The Emperor's New Clothes, Thumbelisa (2 volumes), The Flying Trunk, The Real Princess, The Shepherdess and The Chimney Sweep, The Little Swineherd, The Little Match Girl, Numbskull Jack, The Ugly Duckling (2 volumes). Fully illustrated in vivid colour by Svend Jensen of Denmark. Card covers are of assorted colors and illustrated front and back. Lovely pictorial end papers. Pages in very good condition. Without box, however, these volumes remain highly collectable and beautiful objects in their own right.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Jensen, Svend. 64mo - up to 3" tall.

Garden City, N. Y.: Garden City Publishing, 1930. No date; circa 1930. Dk. purple full cloth boards, orange stamped cover art and titles, moderate shelf wear, rub, spine toning. Frontispiece color plate of The Tinder Box w/eight color plates and black & white images throughout by Nielsen. Illustrations match the coveted, original 1924 Hodder & Stoughton edition. Pages generally very good. Patterned endpapers in bluish purple, lt. fox. Antiquarian name, date at endpapers: "John A. Brown, Sept. 23, 1930". Bind good. Tales include: The Tinder Box; Great Claus and Little Claus; The Real Princess; The Hardy Tin Soldier; The Flying Trunk; Ole Luk-Oie; The Swineherd; The Nightingale; The Snow Queen; The Red Shoes; The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweeper; The Shadow; The Shirt Collar; The Bottle-Neck; The Elder Tree Mother; and, The Story of a Mother. 272 pages. Insured post.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. Illus. by Nielsen, Kay. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

London: George G. Harrap & Co. 1932. 4to.Illustrated. 287 pp,. Recently rebound in red half morocco with original gilt decorated boards laid on. Generally internally clean, with small pencil note to p.40 and occasional minor marks to the bottom of some leaves. Illustrated by Rackham throughout in black and white with 12 tissue guarded colour plates. The first Rackham illustrated edition. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1st Thus. 1932.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Nielsen, Kay. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Sumptuous light blue moire silk binding, gilt decorated front cover and spine. 12 superb colour plates plus 17 full-page line drawings and numerous other decorations. Cream pictorial endpapers. 197 pages. 11.25 x 8.75". Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Darkening and marks to spine; some other dark marks to covers; scuffs to rear. Some writing in ink to front pastedown/endpaper. Foxing and some marks to outer page edges. Some margin marks. All plates present. Contents are generally very good.

New York; Doubleday, Doran, 1924. 1st Edition in this form. Hardback. Good to very good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and toned as with age, front end-paper price-clipped with minor loss. Remains quite well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 272 pages; Description: 1 p. L. , vii-x, [2], 13-272 p. , 1 l. Incl. Illus. , col. [mounted or tipped-in] plates. Col. Front. 23 cm. Subjects; Fairy tales; Children's stories, Danish --Translations into English.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1924. hardcover. fine. Kay Nielsen. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen with 12 mounted color protected with lettered tissue; other black and white drawings and designs throughout. 197pp. 4to, handsomely rebound in full teal morocco, decoratively gilt spine and corners. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1924]. First trade edition. A fine, bright copy.<br/> <br/>