ORIGINAL WOODBLOCK PRINTING PLATE OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
Original woodblock plate for Vilhelm Rosenstand's woodcut illustration for Andersen's Samlede Skrifter published in Copenhagen by C.A. Reitzel in 1876. Original woodblock, cut and inked, 154 x 100 x 24 mm. Vilhelm Jacob Rosenstand, Danish painter and illustrator, was known for his historicist approach to painting. The woodblock was used the produce the engraved title page for the work and depicts Hans Christian Andersen in profile within a wreath of laurel, the entire title page then set within a... Read More
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Andersen's Fairy Tales
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian [Illustrated By Arthur Szyk]
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1945]. Hardcover. Very Good. Original cloth. Translated By Mrs. E.V. Lucas & Mrs. H. B. Paull. Color illustrations by Arthur Szyk. Attractive book.
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Contes Danois
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
Tour: Ad Mame Et Cie, 1853. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good+. Original publishers cloth binding; nicely gilt with multiple inlaid colors. A very well preserved copy, this issue with the plates colored, and uncommon thus. Text in French. Traduction nouvelle.
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Femten Eventyr og Historier af H.C. Andersen. Ny Udgave. Med Illustrationer af Lorenz Frølich.
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
Copenhagen: Reitzel, 1867. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrations by Lorenz Frolich. Text in the original Dutch. 8vo. 124 pp. Publisher's red cloth gilt.
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Schetsboek zonder schetsen
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
Amsterdam: van Kesteren, 1862. Hardcover. Good. Original cloth gilt. Covers with discoloring along the edges. 76 pp. Presentation copy from the translator. An extremely rare Dutch Andersen translation. An old description laid in notes a facsimile reprint from 1975, where it is said that this edition was very limited and that only the Royal Library of Kopenhagen has a copy.
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Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1872. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Publisher's highly decorative green pictorial gilt stamped cloth; a. e. g. Early armorial bookplate. Illustrated with twelve large designs in color by 'E.V.B.' Newly translated by H. L. D. Ward and Augusta Plesner. A quite beautiful edition, this is an unusually exceptional copy in a very bright binding.
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Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrations by Dougald Stewart Walker.
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
London: George G. Harrap & Co., n.d. [c. 1915]. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrations by Dougald Stewart Walker. Contemporary ownership inscription from a Madeleine Worsley dated 1915. Original green cloth with pictorial inlay; illustrations throughout in color and black and white by Douglas Stewart Walker. An attractive edition with modest wear.
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Northern Fairy Tales. Translated from P. C. Asbjornsen's Norwegian Fairy Tales and H. C. Andersen's Danish Fairy Tales.
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian [Translated by H.L. Braekstad]
London, n.d. [1880]. Hardcover. Very Good+. Publisher's pictorial blue gilt stamped cloth; a.e.g. A nice decorative binding of the period, expertly (and we mean expertly) recased. Full page color illustrations (36) by R. T. Pritchett and Clifford Merton. Quite uncommon. Edges of binding rubbed, but still lovely overall.
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The Snow Queen. Illustrated by June Corwin.
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
Boston: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. An uncommon edition. Publisher's cloth in spine faded DJ with tear at top. With a heartfelt lengthy letter from the ilustrator, June Corwin, discussing her role as illustrator of a classic work.
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The Ugly Duckling
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
London: David Nutt in the Strand, 1894. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Tall slim quarto. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Color illustrations by T. van Hoijtema. Inner hinges reinforced with Japanese paper, otherwise light wear only. An exceptionally nice copy of a beautiful and fragile children's book.
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Fairy Tales
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
London, Edinburgh & New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1920]. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall quarto. Publisher's pictorial cloth with stork and baby. Illustrations by Honor C. Appleton. Original cloth, modest wear; a few stains and scratches to cover and light foxing to outer edge of text block, but overall a quite decent copy. Signature of Margaret Dobson, June 1925. Nice color plates.
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The Story of the Storks and The Flying Trunk
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
London: Sandle Brothers Ltd, 1944. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Illustrated by Allan Carter. Stamp ex Opie Collection. Statement in ink to same page: This is the first book of which I did the lay-out and paste-up. A nice copy of a scarce little book, the matching (to the cloth design) pictorial DJ with light wear only.
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Spellmanen från Svendborg
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
Stockholm: Tryckt Hos L. J. Hjerta, 1838. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo. Contemporary 1/4 brown leather and marbled paper over boards. First edition in Swedish. Early ownership inscriptions, one dated 1857. 189pp + 221 pp. Two volumes in one.
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Stories from Hans Andersen. Illustrations by E.S. Hardy.
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
London & New York: Ernest Lister & E. P. Dutton & Co., n.d.. Hardcover. Very Good+. Printed in Bavaria. Full red leather, a prize binding by Relfe Brothers, Ltd, London; the tips slightly rubbbed; spine gilt in six compartments; a.e.g. 288 pp. Black and white illustrations by E.S. Hardy throughout, along with a full color frontis. Christmas 1903 gift inscription presenting the prize to a T. Oxley.
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The Story of a Mother. In 15 different languages.
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian [Edited by Jean Pilo and Vilh. Thomsen]
Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Contemporary 1/2 leather and marbled paper over boards. 98 pp. A fun, multilingual edition with the story translated into 15 languages. Some foxing throughout, otherwise a VG copy.
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Historier
by Andersen, H. C. [Hans Christian]
Kjobenhavn: C.A. Reitzels, 1852. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good+. Original printed wraps; 12mo (4.5 x 7.25 inches); pp. 63, [1]. In custom gilt-lettered brown cloth box. Some light wrinkling along covers and edges of text block (untrimmed); spine chipped; first gathering neatly detached (title-page up to page 14). A bit fragile, but overall in remarkably nice, bright condition, and particularly scarce in its original binding. Nielsen 322. Contains "The Story of the Year", "The World's Fairest Rose",... Read More
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Saturday's Children: A Comedy in Three Acts
by Anderson, Maxwell
New York, et al: Longmans, Green and Co., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth-backed paper over boards. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., with his bookplate (and a nice bookseller's ticket!) on the front paste-down. Inscribed to him "from a couple of other guys / Vienna 1901" on the FFEP. Fairbanks (1909-2000) was an American actor (his credits include “Gunga Din”) and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II.
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A Brush with Shakespeare: The Bard in Painting
by Anderson, Ross (Ed.)
Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1986. Paperback. Near Fine. Illustrated wrappers. Previous owner's signature. With black and white and color illustrations.
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L'Art des Jardins. Traite General de la Composition des Parcs et Jardins
by Andre, Edouard
Paris: G. Masson, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Later half morocco and marbled paper over boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, t.e.g.; 4to (282x197mm); pp. [2] (title-p., blank), viii, 888, plus frontispiece, 11 chromolithograph plates, and 520 illustrations in text; complete. Spine tips lightly scuffed; top corners lightly chipped. Library stamps on front flyleaf (Astor, New York Public) and on the verso of the plates; the occasional blindstamp in text; overall, internally bright and... Read More
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Les Cahiers d 'André Walter, Inscribed Presentation Copy with Four ALSs bound-in
by André Gide (1869-1951)
Paris: Librairie de l'Art Independant, 1891. Very Good+. Deluxe second edition, 12mo (6¼ x 4¼ in); number 180 of 125 copies on tinted paper numbered 66 to 190 and initialed "AW" by Gide in ink. Additionally signed and inscribed by the author to French writer and literary critic Edmond Jaloux (1878-19489), "en cordiale souvenir, Marseille fin Avril 1896" in ink on the half-title; rebound in yellow floral patterned moire silk, gilt-stamped spine, with the original publisher's wrappers preserved,... Read More
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The Art of Florence
by Andres, Glenn; Hunisak, John M.; Turner, Ricahrd; Okamura, Takashi (photographs)
New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes in slipcase. Illustrated throughout. Fine, in lightly worn slipcase.
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Polnoe sobranie socinenij Leonida Andreeva / Razskazy (Complete Set)
by Andreev [Andreyev], Leonid Nikolaevich (1871-1919)
St. Petersburg: Marks, 1913. Hardcover. Very Good+. Volumes 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, bound in four, without title-pages for Volumes 2, 4, 6. Green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. All volumes with lightly soiled and spotted boards. A page loose in one, a signature loose in another, but complete, and internally clean. An excellent working set, and uncommon, OCLC finds most copies residing in European libraries.
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Okean: tragediia [Ocean: Tragedy]
by Andreev [Andreyev], Leonid Nikoaevich; Anisfeld, Boris (illus.)
St. Petersburg: Prometei, 1911. Paperback. Good+. Original wraps; pp. 142, with 6 plates illustrated in b/w, and ads. Front cover detached (but included); light chipping along edges of covers and text block. An excellent candidate for repair or rebinding, with clean text block. Kilgour 37.
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Kniga o Leonide Andreeve. Vospominanija, Blok, Belyj i dr
by Andreev [Andreyev], Leonid Nikolaevich
Peterburg and Berlin: Grzhebina, 1922. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Original printed wraps; pp. 109. Overall lightly tanned; a few small chip at spine tips and along edges of covers; careful mend along top edge of front cover and title-page. Vospominanija M. Gor-kago, K. Cokovskago, A. Bloka, Georgija Culkova, Bor. Zajceva, N. Telesova, Evr. Samjatina, Andreja Belago.
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Kostry [Fires, Book One, Literary Almanac]
by Andreyev, Leonid; Globa, Andrey; Novikov, Ivan; Erenburg, Il'ya; Yakovlev, Alexander
Moscow: Kostry, 1922. Paperback. Very Good. Original printed wraps; pp. 190, [5]. Covers and spine a bit chipped, permanently "protected" by clear laminate. Features a play by Globa, and prose by numerous contributors.
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