Search Results: hans christian andersen fairy tales 2 by andersen hans christian

Flensteds Forlag, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. Pictorial dust jacket over striped paper covered boards. Striped slipcase. Two Volume Set. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Light thumb-marking present. Light water staining to edges of pages. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Heavy water staining to surfaces. Scuffed holes to spine joints. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Slipcase has moderate edge wear with markings to panels and scuffing to edges. Splits to joints,pen marks and brown staining overall.

Independently published, 2017. Paperback. New. 244 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.61 inches.

Flensted, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. Two books in a brown slipcase. Both paginated, volumes I & II. Colour illustrated dust jackets over brown cloth. There is black and white illustrations throughout. Minor tanning to pages with slight dog-eared pages throughout and mild tanning to text block edges. Both boards have minor rubbing and sunning with visible bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends and heavier sunning to spine. Unclipped jackets with visible edge wear, splitting to joints and sunning. Volume I's jacket is detached from spine and in two pieces. Slipcase has visible water marks and splitting to joints.

UsedVeryGood. Minor shelf wear

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

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Odense, Denmark: Flensted, 1964. Clean, bright, crisp and tight. Appears unread. Still has the marker stating this edition is published in Odense. Dark blue boards with a white line along the edge, white lettering on the spine and a white flower on the front. Light blue tint to the tiptops of the pages. The dust jacket has very little shelfwear and is in new mylar. Tan background with red and blue lettering and a portrait of the author on the front and a map on the back. The slipcase is red and blue wiht white lettering and the same portrait of the author on one side. Very little shelfwear. Special Edition published in Andersen's home town by permission of Charles Scribner's Soms.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine (Slip Case). Illus. by Vilhelm Pedersen . 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Fairy Tales.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: The Heritage Illustrated Book shelf ( The Heritage Press), 1948. Cloth. Very Good +/Good +. 3 volume set, complete. In slipcase. A Very Good + set in Good + slipcase. 8vos, each volume approximately 450 pages. Each volume bound in, respectively, Yellow, Blue, or Green cloth , with designs and title in red on the spines and boards; housed in the publisher's red slipcase. All 3 volumes have lightly sunned spines, with very little additional wear. The slipcase is dinged in a few spots with rubbing. The three volumes are: 1. Andersen's Fairy Tales; 2. Shorter Tales 3. Longer Stories.

New.

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, a New Translation with over 200 illustrations, by Harrison Weir, V. Pederson, M.I. Stone, A.W. Bayes, and Others,
Published by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia. No date, but very early date – see info below on "Alta Edition."
Includes detailed sixteen-page introductory biography: "Life of Andersen". Green cloth boards, black embossed cover and spine design with vine and leaves. Title in the black book on front cover and Alta Edition in an outlined box lower middle of cover. On the spine is the title, the word, "Illustrated" and publisher's name which is not as clear as the other two. Cover and spine are faded and rubbed with edge wear. The ends of spine are fraying. Small chip on the back cover. Binding intact, but loose. First three pages have detached from the hinge. Interior clean and unmarked except for previous owner's name on two of the fly pages. In addition to the owner's name there is a little stick figure. Several of the pages have small tears on the… Read More

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Limited Edition. Hardcover. near fine. Octavo. 9" x 6". Two Volume set. Decorated brown covers. This set is #21 of an edition of 1500 copies and is signed by both author and illustrator, Fritz Kredel.. Slipcase has a bit of edge wear.

Odense, Denmark: Flensted, 1953. World edition, 1953. Illustrated with small engravings. Petite two volume set (5.75 inches tall) in striped cloth, color frontis portrait of Andersen in volume I, illustrated dustjackets. Good to very good condition with some age darkening to covers, good hinges, firm text blocks, some age-toning to endpapers and speckling to outer edge of text blocks, pages clean, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjackets are also good to very good with a couple of very minor chips, little paper loss, light shelf soil. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1942. First edition thus. Very good +. Octavo. 2 vols. xiv, 180, (2); (6), 399, (3)pp. Brown cloth spines lettered in gilt, over pictorial light brown boards. Both volumes are housed in publisher's matching slipcase entitled, "Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen." Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Andersen in Vol. I, and numerous hand-colored text drawings by Fritz Kredel in Vol. II. Edition limited to 1500 numbered sets (this is #138), signed on the limitation leaf by both Jean Hersholt and Fritz Kredel. Spines a bit dulled & darkened and there is a faint shadow on the front free endpaper of Vol. I from an old newspaper clipping. Slipcase lightly dusted and rubbed, but sound. Contents: v. 1. Hans Christian Andersen, the maker of fairy tales / edited by Jean Hersholt and illustrated with drawings by Fritz Kredel -- v. 2. Fairy tales / by Hans Christian Andersen ; translated from the Danish by Jean Hersholt, with hand-colored illustrations… Read More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1942. Original decorative paper covered boards w/ gilt title on brown cloth spines. Bindings very bright and clean. #288 of 1,500 copies. SIGNED BY JEAN HERSHOLT AND FRITZ KREDEL IN VOLUME TWO. Includes original salmon slipcase, which is lightly soiled w/ faint dampstains on one side. Vol. 1 illust. w/ a frontispiece of H. C. Andersen, and b/w drawings; Vol. 2 illust. w/ hand-colored illustrations. Contents very nice.. Signed by Editor and Illustrator. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Fritz Kredel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.