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19113620London: Hodder & Stoughton 1911. First trade edition. Original pale olive green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. End-papers printed in pale green with repeated design of stylized peacocks. Minor browning to end-papers bookplate on front paste-down. Minimal creasing to cloth on front edge of spine. With the original Leicester Galleries Exhibition announcement loosely laid-in. Mounted color frontispiece with descriptive tissue guard printed in black and twenty-seven mounted color plates included in pagination. Plates framed with thick pale green line border and accompanied by guard leaves printed in pale green with stylized pineapples on the recto and a border of snowflakes above descriptive caption on the verso. Text pages with pale green snowflake borders at top and bottom. All leaves framed with double pale green lines. A Very Good copy. <br/><br/>During his lifetime Hans Christian Andersen whose every fairy tale has become a classic was second only to Charles Dickens as the most popular author in the Western world. Here his famed narratives get the artistic treatment of Dulac who brings characters to life for the reader.<br/><br/>Hughey 27b. Hodder & Stoughton unknown books
1797<p>London: Hodder and Stoughton 1924. 4to. A beautiful book bound in the original red cloth much scarcer than the usual green with the heavily gilt cover and spine unmarked. Twelve color illustrations by Nielsen tipped in. A few pages creased at the corners a few smudges otherwise clean bright and unworn.</p> hardcover books
1925Embry 137849Hodder and Stoughton London: N.d. circa 1925 Early printing. Small inked nameexpert restoration to spine tips spine lightly sunned two light spots to rear panel near fine and bright in custom mylar cover and recent cloth slipcase. Twelve full page color illustrations by Kay Nielsen. Green cloth pictorially decorated in gilt. Hodder and Stoughton, London: N.d. circa 1925 Early printing. hardcover books
1911008492Chicago: Reilly & Britton 1911. Six Volumes 32mo 4" h x 3" w. The Night Before Christmas dated 1905 the rest 1911. Bound in original red paper covered boards with pictorial paste downs to front covers that are surrounded by a stamped design of holly and berries. White end papers each book with numerous full-page color and some black and white illustrations throughout the only credited illustrator John R. Neill for Peter Rabbit. Introductions by L. Frank Baum. Publisher's ads at ends. A Very Good set lacking the original slipcase spines a bit rubbed contents clean and unmarked hinges solid. SCARCE as a complete set. The tumultuous and complicated history of "Little Black Sambo" as a book and as a pejorative term adds a painful overlay to this otherwise charming Christmas stocking stuffer. . First Edition Thus. Decorative Paper Covered Board. Very Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Reilly & Britton, Hardcover books
184567501First Edition in English of Hans Andersen's "Only a Fiddler" ANDERSEN Hans Christian. Only a Fiddler. Translated from the Danish. London: H. G. Clarke and Co. 1845. First edition in English. Originally published in Danish in 1837. Two twelvemo volumes. Measures 125 x 85 mm. 1 half-title v 208 16 catalog; 1 half-title v 180 12 catalog pp. Publisher's original gift binding bound in full dark brown morocco elaborately gilt-stamped on covers and spines. Adds list cost of Only a Fiddler for 5s. for cloth and 9s. for morocco. Half titles in red blue green and gold. All edges gilt. Previous owner's signatures on front free endpaper of vol. 1. A fine set. Only a Fiddler is a romantic tale and may be semi autobiographical the character Christian most likely representing Hans himself. His love interest is a Jewish girl named Naomi. Unlike most fairy tales this one does not end up with a happy ending. Naomi and Christian never end up together sharing only the feeling of emptiness. Soren Kierkegaard Andersen's neighbor at the time reviewed Only a Fiddler and writes that Andersen "completely lacks any philosophy of life". HBS 67501. $1100 H. G. Clarke and Co. hardcover books
19114050M. MUNK: VIENNA 1911. Vienna: M. Munk 1911. 4to color lithographed cream wrappers with crown and fish motif by Urban. Small loss to paper covering at bottom of spine else fine. Twelve color and gilt lithographs illustrate twelve fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen opposite pages of text within elaborate gilt borders. Decorated calendar pages list feast or saints days for each month. Lefler and Urban did a series of these illustrated story-calendars with different plates . A lovely example of Viennese Jugendstil design. . Color Lithographed Wrappers. Near Fine. Illus. by LEFLER AND URBAN. 4to. VIENNA Paperback books
1924000084London: Hodder & Stoughton 1924. Elaborate gilt pictorial cover and spine. One small nick at bottom of front cover without loss of cloth. Twelve full-page tipped-in color plates by KAY NIELSEN. Numerous text illustrations in black and white. Slight bubbling of endpapers inside front cover and on rear cover. Occasional peripheral foxing on a few pages. A bright copy. 197pp. First Trade Edition. Green Ribbed Cloth. Light Edge Wear./No Jacket. Illus. by Kay Nielsen. Quarto. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover books
18992221708<p>ORIGINAL 14 PARTS</p><p>First edition in the original 14 parts. 11" x 8 1/2" circa 400 b/w illustrations by Lemercier and Helen Stratton who gets sole credit on the title page. Original stitched green pictorial wrappers. Part 14 with half title title page contents and list of illustrations 320 pages. No dust jacket. Very good minor rubbing; signs of handling and some light foxing. Scarce.</p><p>Printed by Butler & Tanner The Selwood Printing Works.</p><p>Some illustrations in first two parts are signed "Lemercier" in the plate.</p> George Newnes paperback books
193567325"Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Andersen" Signed By Rex Whistler WHISTLER Rex illustrator. ANDERSEN Hans Christian. Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Rex Whistler. London: Cobden-Sanderson Ltd. 1935. First edition. Octavo. 470 pp. One of 200 copies signed by Rex Whistler on half-title. Illustrated with 10 full page black and white illustrations and numerous others throughout. Endpapers repeat the cover design in green. Full white buckram elaborately decorated in gilt on covers and spine by Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co. All edges gilt. Previous owner's neat gift inscription on blank endpaper dated 1936. Evidence of bookplate removal on verso of front free endpaper. An extremely fine fresh copy. HBS 67325. $1350 Cobden-Sanderson Ltd. hardcover books
185068477First American Edition of This Title and an Early American Appearance of ìThe Ugly Duckî ANDERSEN Hans Christian. The Ugly Duck and Other Tales. With Illustrations. New York: C.S. Francis & Co Boston J.H. Francis 1850. First American Edition of this title and an early American appearance of The Ugly Duck. Twelvemo 5 3/4 x 3 5/8 inches;146 x 90 mm. 1-159 1 blank pp. Part of the ìFrancis & Co. Little Library: For Young Persons of Various Ages.î With half-title and engraved frontispiece. Illustrated with numerous engravings and historiated initials throughout. The first American appearance of the story of The Ugly Duck in in a volume called Wonderful stories for children Second series. New York: Wiley & Putnam 1846. We could find no copies of this first appearance at auction nor any copies of this present edition. PublisherÃs full brown cloth. Board intricately stamped in blind with publisherÃs imprint stamped in blind as central device. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt with a gilt figure of a child and floral urns. Spine slightly sunned and a few spots to boards. But gilt is bright. A few spots of foxing throughout and previous ownerÃs early ink inscription on front free endpaper. Overall an about fine copy of this childrenÃs book. This volume includes the titles:The Ugly Duck Top and Ball The Little Mermaid The Storks The Nightingale The Rose Elf Holger Danske The Emperor Frederic Barbarossa and The Dying Child. HBS 68477. $1350 C.S. Francis & Co. hardcover books
1911123433London: Hodder & Stoughton 1911. First English trade edition of this timeless classic with 28 stunning illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Quarto bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands gilt ruling to the panels marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With 28 tipped-in full color plates including captioned tissue-guarded frontispiece illustrated by Edmund Dulac. With the original cloth cover decorated in gilt bound in at rear. In near fine condition. "Dulac was one of the central illustrators of the Edwardian period a time when fantasy illustration reached a peak of sophistication" Clute & Grant 300. "Dulac remained true to the medium of watercolor and the critics were unanimous in their praise. He was recognized as an illustrator of first rank a master of the fantastic and exotic and 'a dreamer of extraordinary dreams'. Among the 28 color plates in this volume are several of the artist's most loved and celebrated illustrations: 'The Little Mermaid' 'The Emperor's New Clothes' and 'The Princess and the Pea'" Dalby 82-83. This collection also includes "The Wind's Tale" "The Nightingale" and "The Snow Queen." Hodder & Stoughton hardcover books
19131312044Hodder & Stoughton 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition thus. Very good in a very good dust jacket. rare in dust jacket. Book has some foxing on page ends and on front free endpages. Jacket is in quite nice condition with only minor chipping at the corners and spine ends. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover books
1939247503New York: Macmillan 1939. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Lathrop Dorothy. Full page illustrations in black & white and color by Dorothy Lathrop. 4to blue cloth with a pictorial vignette in gilt; d.w. small dampstain affecting back panel of dw and back cover toning to edges of wrapper back endpaper creased at foredge. New York: Macmillan 1939. First Edition.<br/><br/> The scarcest of Lathrop titles this is a very good copy with a neat square hole in the dust jacket flap presumably cutting out the price.<br/><br/> Macmillan unknown books
1847140937710London: Chapman & Hall 1847. First British Edition. Very Good. First British edition. Bound in publisher's brown cloth decorated in blind and stamped in gilt. Spine faded corners bumped cloth lightly rubbed. Previous owner details to front free end paper. Plates browned and foxed; sporadic light foxing to pages. All plates are present though the plate facing page 90 has been re-tipped in and has a short edge-tear. Contains eleven fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen translated here into English for the first time. Chapman & Hall unknown books
193288439London: George G. Harrap & Co 1932. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis illustrations 12 color plates including frontis 288p. Original vellum. Small chip in backstrip. Tiny snag on back cover. Modest soiling and foxing on cover a couple of small cnags on back cover. Backstrip somewhat darkened and wavy. Internatly sound and clean. Partially unopened as published. Copy No. 449 of Edition Limited to 525 numbered and signed by Rackham copies. No jacket or slipcase present. <br/><br/> George G. Harrap & Co hardcover books
03185Paris: L'Édition D'Art / H. Piazza 1911. French Signed Limited Edition of Edmund Dulac's Hans Andersen<br/><br/>DULAC Edmund illustrator. ANDERSEN Hans Christian. La Reine des Neiges et Quelques Autres Contes Illustrés par Edmond Dulac. Paris: L'Édition D'Art / H. Piazza 1911. <br/><br/>French Signed Limited Edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies on Papier du Japon signed by Edmund Dulac this being #487.<br/><br/>Quarto 11 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches; 290 x 224 mm. 172 pp. Title-page decoratively printed in red black green and yellow. Twenty-eight mounted color plates each framed with turquoise green flowery borders and titled tissue-guards. Original front wrapper decorated in green and gilt bound in.<br/><br/>Contemporary Publishers full mottled calf covers with triple rule borders and decorative corner pieces spine with five raised bands decoratively stamped in gilt and with a maroon morocco lettering label. All edges stained red marbled endpapers. Expert and almost invisible repair to rear joint tiny one inch crack at top of front joint. An excellent copy.<br/><br/>"28 Dulac colour plates mounted on vellum framed with turquoise green flowery borders; covered with tissue guards imprinted with black captions. Also special turquoise green borders for title page and snowflake border designs for text pages. 5 different dark green initials decorated with turquoise surrounds; small medallion designs for limitation and printer's pages 7 designs for chapter titles 9 tailpiece designs. Price when issued: full leather 100 fr." Hughey 27kk.<br/><br/>During his lifetime Hans Christian Andersen whose every fairy tale has become a classic was second only to Charles Dickens as the most popular author in the Western world.<br/><br/>Hughey 27kk. Paris: L'Édition D'Art / H. Piazza, 1911 unknown books
18461401175William Pickering London 1846. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very good in original green cloth covered boards with quarter leather binding and corners; gilt detailing. First edition in English 1846. Some edge wear; two front free end papers have closed tears of which the first one has been repaired. Comes housed in a custom-made slipcase. William Pickering, London hardcover books
192467906Edition de Luxe with Twelve Mounted Color Plates NIELSEN Kay illustrator. ANDERSEN Hans Christian. Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. London: Hodder and Stoughton n.d. 1924. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 numbered copies this copy bound without signed limitation page. Large quarto 12 x 9 3/4 inches; 305 x 250 mm. 3-197 3 blank pp. Twelve mounted color plates with descriptive tissue guards. Numerous black and white text illustrations seventeen full-page and decorative borders and initials. In later binding. Full vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Newer endpapers and silk page marker. Occasional light spotting to descriptive tissue guards only. Some toning to mounting pages but illustrations are clean and bright. A beautiful copy. Nielsen had completed these drawings in 1912. Hodder and Stoughton however published another edition of Hans Andersen in 1913 illustrated by Heath Robinson which probably explains the late appearance of the Nielsen edition. HBS 67906. $1750 Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books
198619173N.p. / New York: Self-published / Aperture 2005 / 1986. Untitled Days of Night is fine in cloth boards sans jacket as issued. Black Sun: The Eyes of Four is fine in a near fine price-clipped jacket. Both books housed together in a plain cloth slipcase. First Edition. Quartos. Set of two books including a limited-edition artists' book by Morten Andersen and the exhibition catalogue Black Sun: The Eyes of Four by Mark Holborn. Issued as part of the Marks of Honour series in which a contemporary photographer's book is paired with the work that inspired it. Here Andersen has highlighted the photography of Daido Moriyama and the Provoke school featured in the accompanying catalogue for Black Sun: The Eyes of Four which informs the grainy black-and-white Tokyo images of his Untitled Days of Night series. Number 3 of a limited edition of 5 numbered copies Andersen's artists' book is SIGNED and consists of 24 leporello-bound barite prints with the photographer's notes written in pencil on the versos. A loose photocopied sheet reproducing a letter by Andersen describing the project has been laid in. [N.p. / New York: Self-published / Aperture unknown books
1911Embry 187094Hodder & Stoughton London: 1911. First edition thus limited issue one of 750 copies signed by Edmund Dulac. Lacking ties near fine to fine in custom mylar cover and custom slipcase. Twenty-Eight full page tipped-in color illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Full vellum titled and pictorially stamped in gilt. Hodder & Stoughton, London: 1911. First edition thus, limited issue, one of 750 copies, signed by Edmund Dulac. hardcover books
00298London: Richard Bentley 1864. The moral of this story shows Though knaves on women oft impose<br/>That men are sometimes quite as green But hold their tongues themselves to screen" <br/>Hans Christian Andersen<br/><br/>ANDERSEN Hans Christian. BUSHBY Mrs. Anne editor and translator. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors. Translated by Mrs. Bushby. In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley 1864.<br/><br/>First English edition of this collection of Danish tales and verse selected and translated by Mrs. Bushby. <br/><br/>Three octavo volumes 7 7/8 x 4 15/16 inches; 200 x 125 mm. 2 publisher's advertisements 6 312; 4 303 1 blank; 4 303 1 blank pp.<br/><br/>Original terra cotta pebble-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spines ruled decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Original cream-colored endpapers. Some very faint marks on the front covers where there must once have been library labels the absolute minimum of rubbing to corners some minor foxing to top edge. <br/>A truly spectacular copy.<br/><br/>OCLC records just ten copies in libraries and institutions worldwide.<br/><br/>Includes stories and poems by Hans Christian Andersen "Morten Langè. A Christmas Story" - volume I pp. 199-208 and "The Man from Paradise. A Comic Tale" - volume I pp. 305-312; Carl Bernhard "Cousin Carl" "Aunt Francisca" "Damon and Pythas" and "The Bankrupt"; Bernard Severin Ingemann "The Doomed House" "The Secret Witness" "All Souls' Day" "The Aged Rabbi. A Jewish Tale" and "The Death Ship"; Carit Etlar "Too Old" "The Shipwrecked Mariner's Treasure" and "Twice Sacrificed"; H.P. Holst "Lisette's Castles in the Air" Adam Oehlenschlager "Death and His Victims" and others.<br/><br/>"Mrs Bushby is in many ways an interesting translator who did not see Andersen as simply a children's writer and that some of her divergences from Andersen's text are not mistakes but deliberate adaptations for the benefit of her audience in Victorian Britain.Mrs Anne S. Bushby died 1875 knew Andersen personally had indeed courted his acquaintance since his first visit to London in 1847 when her husband called upon him to invite him to dinner Bredsdorff 1954: 314" Viggo Hjørnager Pedersen Anne Bushby Translator of Hans Christian Andersen 2004. <br/><br/>"Most of the following stories have appeared from time to time in the ‘New Monthly Magazine' and a few in other periodicals. They are now gathered together and it is hoped that they may convey a favourable impression of the lighter literature of Denmark—a country rich in genius science and art" Prefatory note.<br/><br/>Not in Sadleir or Wolff. London: Richard Bentley, 1864 unknown books
18461401047William Pickering London 1846. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition in English of Andersen's fairy tales. Very good. Fully leather bound with gilt stamped detailing on covers and spine. Marbled end papers. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front paste down and name inscribed on front free end paper inscription by previous owner on verso of front free end paper. Some water stains and foxing on end papers. A very nice copy; housed in a custom-made slipcase. William Pickering, London hardcover books
192915275Waterbury CT: The Waterbury Metal Wares Co. ca. 1929. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Large 8vo. commercial album. Limp leather wraps over metal ring binding. Printed catalogue with 75 added leaves holding 85 professional black-and-white photographs loosely corner-mounted. Some stamped on verso with company name. With numerous additional manuscript notations and dozens of sketches. An unmodified copy of the print catalog a supplemental catalog and various related scrap and ephemera additionally laid in. General wear. Overall sound. Very good. <br/><br/>Draft production binder used in creation and revision of a 1929 catalogue of electric lighting fixtures and accessories belonging to Lauritz W. Andersen industrial designer and owner of The Waterbury Metal Wares Co. Andersen was a prominent inventor and designer of electrical socketry in the early 20th century; his career can be traced through patent office records where over 60 items bear his name. He was with the firm of Plume and Atwood for approximately 25 years leaving in 1915 to form Waterbury. The firm specialized in fixtures and other components for lamps and lighting — including earlier methods candles lanterns. Sconces candelabras floor and desk lamps as well as more specialized piano drafting much in evidence. The clear professional photographs as well as sketches and notes within the binder provide a thorough glimpse into the early industrial design and marketing of electrical lighting. The Waterbury Metal Wares Co. paperback books
1932157124London: Harrap 1932. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Arthur Rackham. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 12 full-page color plates and 59 black and white in-text drawings; pictorial endpapers and illustrated title page. 288 pages. 4to original gilt-lettered vellum; uncut edges t.e.g. London: George Harrap 1932. Minor sunning and bumping; covers are a bit bowed but overall still a near fine copy lacking the slipcase.<br/><br/> Limited edition. Number 244 of 525 copies signed by the artist on the limitation page. Latimore & Haskell p. 68.<br/><br/> Harrap unknown books
04044London: Hodder and Stoughton 1924. Edition Deluxe<br/>1/500 Copies Signed by Kay Nielsen<br/><br/>Nielsen Kay illustrator. Andersen Hans Christian. Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. London: Hodder and Stoughton 1924. <br/><br/>Limited to 500 copies numbered and signed by the artist this being copy no. 209. <br/><br/>Large quarto 12 3/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 310 x 250 mm. x 11-197 3 blank pp. Text with decorative borders and initials. Twelve mounted color plates with captioned tissue guards and numerous black and white text illustrations including seventeen full-page.<br/><br/>Publisher's vellum front cover and spine pictorially stamped in gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Some very minor soiling to spine and covers otherwise a near fine copy. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase.<br/><br/>Danish illustrator and designer Kay Nielsen 1886-1957 "was drawn early on to fairy tales and illustrated many volumes for Hodder & Stoughton: In Powder and Crinoline 1913 East of the Sun West of the Moon 1914 Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales drawings completed in 1912 but first published in 1924 Hansel and Gretel 1925 and Red Magic Jonathan Cape 1930 a collections of fairy tales from around the world. Nielsen's designs unite strong linearity with delicate colouring. Characterized by a sense of two-dimensional flatness Nielsen's objects and people are highly stylized: foxglove blossoms hang in measured asymmetry; princes and princesses stand on improbably long legs; and their garments billow in gravity-defying parabolas. The power of his illustrations lies in his uncanny ability to retrieve a story's emotional effect on its reader and to recreate it visually in two dimensions" The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924 unknown books
