STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSEN, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY EDMUND DULAC
Book Details + Condition: Hodder & Stoughton Limited (London). First Edition, 1911 [undated, but considered the first trade edition]. Scarce in this edition. Original light brown/tan decorated cloth boards with gilt elaborate decorations and titling to front and spine; Dulac personally designed this edition, its decorated endpapers, page borders, and leaves before each tipped-in plate. 250 pages. Includes 28 beautiful full-page, tipped-in color plates of illustrations by Edmund Dulac; all plates are present. Book measures 11.25" x 9". Famous and beautifully illustrated fairytale compilation includes the stories The Snow Queen, The Real Princess, The Garden of Paradise, The Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes, and more. Firm binding; light shelf wear to boards, with a bit of darkening and soiling present (mostly to rear); chafed spine ends; light foxing to front endpapers and title page; a few pages have small tears to edges; interior is clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes. Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions! Also check out our other rare and out-of-print antiquarian books at Black Cat Caboodle. SHIPPING & PAYMENT Shipping & Handling — covers shipping via USPS to anywhere in the continental U.S. and within eBay's Global Shipping Program.Payment is due within 3 days of end of auction. Black Cat Caboodle THANKS you for looking! |