Hans Christian Andersen : the Maker of Fairy Tales... The First of Two Volumes. [and, Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen... The Second of Two Volumes. SIGNED]

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 by Fritz Kredel.