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189915251London: George Newnes 1899. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good bound in illustrated stitched wrappers as originally issued. A few creases smudges small weak stains and minor edge wear to paper wraps. Toning. Interiors are unmarked.11" x 8 1/2". Profusely illustrated throughout each volume with a total of approximately 400 illustrations. This is the scarce complete set as originally published in English in 14 parts issued "fortnightly." All volumes housed in a contemporary custom case. Includes the first appearance of the most famous of the Andersen tales: "The Emperor's New Clothes" "The Little Mermaid" "The Nightingale" "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" "The Red Shoes" "The Princess and the Pea" "The Snow Queen" "The Ugly Duckling" "The Little Match Girl" and "Thumbelina" among others. George Newnes unknown
183162802Kjöbenhavn (Copenhagen), 1831. Bound in a very nice, elegant brown half calf binding with gilt spine (Kyster). Upper edge gilt. Partly uncut and printed on good paper. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front board. A very nice copy.
184732144London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. Orig. red-brown full cloth. Boards and back blindtooled (Remnant & Edmonds, London). Capitals worn, especially upper capital, small nick to upper part of back. Inner hinges a bit weak. Internally nice and clean. W. half-title. VIII, 298 pp + Publisher's Catalogue (32 pp).
183162802Kjöbenhavn Copenhagen 1831. Bound in a very nice elegant brown half calf binding with gilt spine Kyster. Upper edge gilt. Partly uncut and printed on good paper. Ex-libris pasted on to verso of front board. A very nice copy. <br/><br/><em>Exceedingly scarce first edition of Andersen's second theatre-performed piece. The work is extremely rare and almost never turns up in the trade. Apart from his debut book "Ungdoms-Forsøg"/"Palnatokes Grav" this is presumably the scarcest Andersen-title. Hans Christian Andersen inaugurated his dramatical production with "Kjærlighed paa Nicolai Taarn" in 1829 a genre that came to mean a lot to him and for which he continued producing plays for forty years amounting to about as many plays. The question as to acceptance from the theatre and the the set-up of the plays however -especially at the beginning of his career - would often postpone the actual theatre debut by many months sometimes years. And thus although Andersen had translated/ re-written two other plays for the stage before he re-wrote "Skibet" "The Ship" after Scribe and Mazere's "La Quarantaine" "Skibet" came to be the very first re-worked play by Andersen that was performed at the theatre and only the second play at all following his own "Kjærlighed paa Nicolai Taarn". Together with "Kjærlighed paa Nicolai Taarn" "Skibet" constitutes his dramatical/theatre-debut and was of immense importance to him. After "Skibet" he continued to re-write foreign pieces for the stage and gained more and more success in this endeavour. BFN 166. </em> unknown
184732144London Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1847. Orig. red-brown full cloth. Boards and back blindtooled Remnant & Edmonds London. Capitals worn especially upper capital small nick to upper part of back. Inner hinges a bit weak. Internally nice and clean. W. half-title. VIII 298 pp Publisher's Catalogue 32 pp. <br/><br/><em>First English language edition being the first separate edition of Hans Christian Andersen's first official autobiography. The English edition preceded the Danish with 95 years ! as the first Danish edition did not appear until 1942 when it was issued by H. Topsøe-Jensen under the title "Mit eget Eventyr uden Digtning" i.e. "My Own Fairy Tale Without Poetry". The first German edition appeared as an introduction in the collected German edition of Andersen's works also in 1847 under the title: "Das Märchen meines Lebens ohne Dichtung." The general idea that underlies the work is that life is like a fairy tale and that God makes curious things happen. "This True Story of his Life will not be found the least interesting of his writings; indeed to me it seems one of the most so. It furnishes the key as it were to all the rest ." Translator's preface. The autobiography is written in the same wonderful language and with the same straightforward mystique that characterizes H.C. Andersen's other writings and the person H.C.A. cannot be said to be less interesting or intriguing than his fairy tales. "My life is a lovely story happy and full of incident. If when I was a boy and went forth into the world poor and friendless a good fairy had met me and said "Choose now thy own course through life ." the initiating lines of Chapter one. H.C. Andresen wrote his autobiography while travelling in Europe. Numerous interruptions appeared and Andersen sent the sheets of the manuscript off to the publisher as they were written which meant that he did not have the earlier parts of the work with him when he wrote the latter. The work also much exceeded the length that he had intended. The manuscript was written in Danish and was translated into English and German the year after he had finished the final sheets August 1846. For this work he only worked on one single manuscript and made all of the numerous corrections directly in this meaning that it was exceedingly difficult to read and that it could not be sent to a translator straight away. The publisher had been told to send the sheets of the manuscript directly to his friend and financial advisor Edvard Collin as they arrived and Collin realizing that no stranger would be able to read the manuscript made a fair copy of the entire manuscript correcting all of Andersen's linguistic and stylistic errors. In return he got to keep the manuscript which is why it was still in existence almost 100 years later when the first Danish edition of it was to be printed. Andersen borrowed his manuscript from Collin when some years later he had to deliver a Danish autobiography for the edition of his collected works. He used it as the basis for "Mit Livs Eventyr" The Fairy Tale of My Life" which appeared in his collected works in 1854-55 but which is much different from the present and principal autobiography. </em> hardcover
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. Orig. red-brown full cloth. Boards and back blindtooled (Remnant & Edmonds, London). Capitals worn, especially upper capital, small nick to upper part of back. Inner hinges a bit weak. Internally nice and clean. W. half-title. VIII, 298 pp + Publisher's Catalogue (32 pp).
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
191314839Paris: Privately Printed. Very Good-. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio half-leather and marbled boards. Textured marbled endpapers. Spine with four raised bands and in five compartments. Top edge gilt. Limited edition. This is copy #263/275. Illustrated throughout with plans designs architectural renderings and engravings. Several large folding plates. Printed on a very heavy thick paper. Wear along the spine edges and bands. Rubbing along with some narrow scrapes to a number of areas of the boards. A small 1/2" light-colored stain toward the upper front board. There is some splitting to the lower front edge of the spine. There is a large amount of a type of foxing the like of which I have not seen before. In another copy of this book I have seen the same heavy foxing. There must be some unusual content in the paper used for the production of this massive book. It is contained in a period felt-lined wooden shipping or storage box. The box is quite worn. The upper hinged lid is broken at one hinge and is nearly so at the other. There is cracking to the wood but it seems to be quite solid. THIS VERY HEAVY BOOK MAY REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Privately Printed hardcover
19173N.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
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
19225210<p>Quarto 30.5x23.5 cm. decorated boards 14 pp. unique illustrated endpapers. Hans Christian Andersen's fable Svinedrangen with marvelous color drawings by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky 1875-1957. This production is a real tour de force with individual drawings for each endpaper to frame the story. The publisher Z.I. Grzhebin had commissioned the work to be released in a series in 1917 and the drawings are dated from that time. Grzhebin was the hightest regarded publisher in Petrograd who had exacting standards for all his releases. The revolution interrupted publication with chaotic qualities of inks and paper and the civil war complicated things further. Because of personal disputes Grzhebin was threatened with death and hastily emigrated to Berlin where he continued printing very high quality books as an émigré initially securing state funds due to his great reputation among international circles and the publishing house's reappearance was even acknowledged in Moscow as the most important of Russian publishers at home or abroad. OCLC locates 6 holdings in North America. This copy very fine with faint bookseller stamp and sticker on rear ep.</p> Z.I. Grzhebin hardcover
1846022359New York: Harper. Six Publications in One Volume. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. New York: Harper 1846. First American Edition. Andersen Hans Christian. Trans. Mary Howitt. Life in Italy. The Improvisatore. New York: Harper 1945. First American Edition. Andersen Hans Christian. Trans. Mary Howitt. Only a Fiddler! and O.T. New York: Harper 1945. First American Edition. Bremer Frederika. Trans. William Howitt. Life in Dalecarlia: The Parsonage of Mora. New York: Harper 1845. First American Edition. Bremer Frederika. Trans. Mary Howitt. The H- Familly; Tralinnan; Axel and Anna; and Other Tales. New York Harper 1844. First American Edition. Howitt Mary. The Authors Daughter: A Tale. New York: Harper 1845. First Edition. Quarter leather and marbled boards. One of Dickens important Christmas tales. Mary Howitt and her husband William were prolific authors and translators. Mary wrote many works for children including her famous poem The Spider and the Fly and as evidenced here she and her husband translated various Scandinavian works such as those of Andersen and Bremer. Chips and staining on spine handwritten index of the book on the front free endpaper previous owners signature in ink a little foxing Good. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1846. Harper hardcover
1913519345aParis: Hendrik Christian Andersen 1913. Large hardcover with green cloth boards gilt border printing and decoration to cover gilt printing to spine. Illustrated throughout with plans designs architectural renderings and engravings. Several large folding plates. The book is in two parts. The first deals with the history of the city and monumental architecture and seeks inspiration in classical and contemporary notions of city planning - Paris and Washington DC feature prominently. The second part details Andersen's imaginary urban landscape complete with works of art for the 'World City'. Olympic stadia galleries for the arts and sciences as well as government buildings are all outlined and placed upon a defined grid plan with an emphasis on a grand central avenue acting as the axis of the city. A very fine copy on thick rough-cut paper with tissue guards on all illustrations. Foxing to most pages and boards are bumped at corners and edges are lightly rubbed. A few minor marks to boards. This copy has been well looked after the pages are all crisp and free of any markings besides foxing fold-outs are all excellent and the spine is sound. AD. Hardcover. Very Good. Used. Hendrik Christian Andersen Hardcover
2016DBS-9781781637883Koros 2016. 1St. Hardcover. New. Koros hardcover
2016DBS-9781781637883Koros 2016. 1St. Hardcover. New. Koros hardcover
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
1882303311London: Samson Low 1882. First. hardcover. very good. Translated by H. L. Ward & Augusta Plesner. Ten full page chromolithograph plates by E.V.B. Eleanor Vere Boyle. Tall thin 8vo Dark blue pictorial boards with cloth spine floral end-leaves page edges deep red. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington n.d. ca. 1882. First Edition.<br/> <br/> There is a neat calligraphic Christmas gift inscription from "Grandmama" dated 1882. The edges & corners are lightly rubbed; one leaf p. 49/50 has a diagonal fold due to a binding error but the book is a solid clean example of Victorian book illustration.<br/> <br/> Samson Low unknown
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
193254085George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd 1932-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1932 George Harrap first edition in original jacket and pictorial box as issued. Book looks unread jacket has closed tears to front panel and faint wrinkle. Box is rubbed with one pair split seams on top half. Please email for photos. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd hardcover
19205313<p>Large quarto 27.5x22.5 cm. wrappers 10 pp. The Omanut or Omonuth publishing house Moscow-Odessa-Frankfurt-Tel Aviv and its Gamiliel Library of children's literature was founded by the scion Shoshana Persitz 1894-1969 funded by her father Hillel Zlatopolskii and her husband Iosif Persitz. Shoshana was 24 when she began the press. Omanut is the Hebrew word for "art." Shoshana was deeply involved already in the Tarbut group which in 1917 vowed to restore Hebrew language and she wanted Hebrew to be the mother tongue of Russian Jews who were historically prosecuted and Hebrew was confined to religious texts. Persitz was inspired by the esthetics of the Mir iskusstva group of artists and to print children's books with fine works of renowned Western authors --- Lewis Carroll Jules Verne Charles Dickens and printed as beautifully as possible. Jewish children would thus be able to partake of best children's literature in their own language. This would be a <em>hidur Mitzvah</em> --- a sanctification of the world through beauty inculcated into young Jewish readers. Originating in Moscow in 1918 Persitz was unable to print the first titles there because the Bolsheviks nationalized her equipment. She with her family together with the entire Tarbut group relocated in a special train provided by a German diplomat to Odessa where the press found temporary quarters. In Odessa the artist group Havarut Tzavarim was formed and connected with Omanut. It consisted of four Jewish artists who provided graphics for most of the books issued under the Gamiliel Library imprint. They decided not to attribute work to any one member acting as a single <em>bunt</em>. After Odessa fell to the Soviets and the revolutionary government posed the same threat to the press there Persitz exiled to Germany at Homburg vor der Höhe near Frankfurt where Omanut continued to publish and release the largest number of titles of the Gamiliel Library which were twelve in all. In 1925 the press moved from Europe to Tel-Aviv and Shoshana became a member of the Knesset. The Omanut publishing house continued to 1945 with a strong emphasis on educational texts. But the Gamliel Library was discontinued after leaving Europe and received scant attention thereafter. A beautiful chapter of Hebrew children's literature deserves to be more widely known and honor paid to this wonderful series released in small quantities and currently held by institutions. The present work The Nightengale has rtwork by Heorhyi Narbut 1886-1920 Ukrainian master graphic artist for this famous tale of Hans Christian Andersen. One of the early releases of this series from Odessa by the Omanut Press which originated with Knebel's Russian language printing. One institutional holding found worldwide LOC. A fine copy.</p> Omanut paperback
1994539188San Francisco: Cottage Classics 1994. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Illustrated by S. Clay Wilson. Edited by Malcolm Whyte. Fine in red papercovered boards with gilt decoration and lettering. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 26 lettered copies Signed by Wilson with a unique illustration. This is copy letter "I". Seven stories by Andersen with new illustrations by Wilson. Cottage Classics hardcover
184575596Kjøbenhavn 1845-47. 8vo. Noe senere skinnryggbind med rik ryggforgylling i tidens stil. 6 47 ; 4 68 ; 12 52 ; 8 72 ; 60 4 ; 2 70 s. 8vo. Somewhat later half calf spine gilt in the style of the time. 6 47 ; 4 68 ; 12 52 ; 8 72 ; 60 4 ; 2 70 pp. Paa Universitetsboghandler C. A. Reitzels Forlag. Dansk. <br/><br/><em>Første bind i tredje opplag og ""Billedbog uden Billeder"" i ""Anden forøgede Udgave"". Fellestittelbladene er med. Flere førstetrykk av noen av H. C. Andersens mest kjente eventyr såsom ""Grantræet"" ""Sneedronningen"" ""Den lille Pige med Svovelstikkerne"". Få pletter i materien. First volume being third edition. “Billedbog uden Billeder†being second augmented edition. Contains first printings of some of the most famous H. C. Andersen fairy tales. Some minor internal staining. </em> unknown
185220755K., 1852-53. Smukt senere hldrbd. i gl. stil m. rig rygforgyldn., brede hjørner og enkelte stregbordurer i guld på permer. Topguldsnit. Særdeles friskt ekspl. m. begge smudstitelblade og begge indholdsfortegnelser.
185234632Kjøbenhavn, 1852 - 53. Indb. i et sædeles nydeligt nyere hldrbd. i gl. stil m. rig rygforgyldn. Ubeskåret. Komplet m. begge smudstitelblade (smudstitelbladet til anden samling er på noget varierende, men samtidigt papir), begge titelblade, begge indholdsfortegnelser og alle alle særskilte deltitelblade til de enklte historier. Nogle blade brunplettede, men et særdeles nydeligt ekspl.
