It's Perfectly True and Other Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Translated from the DAnish by Paul Leyssac

  • New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938
By LEYSSAC, Paul; [Sir] Hugh WALPOLE, forward
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. Richard BENNETT. Dust jacket title: It's Perfectly True and Other Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, A New Translation, with a Foreword by Hugh Walpole

Richard BENNETT, illustrator. Later printing. Small 4to; x, 305pp; mint green buckram over the board, black lettering on front and spine, small vignette of birds and a cage on front; color pictorial endpapers; untrimmed foreedge; 29 illustrated plates, small illustrations in text; light rub to bottom edges; clipped decorated dust jacket, light spots and chips to edges; near fine in very good dj. Twenty-eight favorite tales from Hans Christian Andersen with beautiful wood engraved illustrations by Richard Bennett (1899-1979). The collection includes The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Little Match-Girl, The Princess on the Pea, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Snow Queen, Thumbelina, and others.

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Title

It's Perfectly True and Other Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Translated from the DAnish by Paul Leyssac

Author

LEYSSAC, Paul; [Sir] Hugh WALPOLE, forward

Condition

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Publisher

Harcourt, Brace and Company: New York

Date

1938


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