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Andersen's Fairy Tales
by Andersen, Hans Christian
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Interior VG+ with only dots of foxxing on the reverse of the frontis title page and several other interior pages.
- Seller
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West Orange , New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
This is a copy of the first UK trade edition of Arthur Rackham's treatment of Andersen's Fairy Tales. Quarto in red cloth, pictorial gilt lettering and art by Rackham on front and spine, pictorial endpapers, gilt top. The 12 full page color plates have with printed tissue guards. Water stains on front and back boards, spine slightly sunned with darkened gilt. Binding is tight, square and straight. Interior VG+ with only dots of foxing on the reverse of the frontis title page and several other interior pages. Printed endpapers are present and entire, but faded, especially at recto. Verso ffep has a continuation of the front water stain on its edge. Stain does not continue past that page. I'm being meticulous in describing the book's condition -- the front board water stain and spine gilt are the only things that would bother a reasonable person.
Synopsis
Originally published in 1991, this collection of classic fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by internationally acclaimed artist Lisbeth Zwerger, has been expanded -- three stories added -- and completely redesigned.
Reviews
On Apr 9 2018, a reader said:
The book is awesome, but this posting is confusing. Are the illustrations the Syck originals, or have they been modified by E. Zeerger? It is a First Edition, But not THE first PUBLISHED edition, as that was in the 1950s. I have a copy of this, but the registration of the colors in the color plates was way off, making the illustrations difficult to view and appreciate, to put it mildly!!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Acme Book & Anvil
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 713
- Title
- Andersen's Fairy Tales
- Author
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Illustrator
- Rackham, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Binding is tight, square and straight.
- Book Condition
- Used - Interior VG+ with only dots of foxxing on the reverse of the frontis title page and several other interior pages.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Trade
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harrap / David McKay
- Date Published
- 1932
- Size
- Quarto
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Acme Book & Anvil
We have a 30-day return guarantee with full refund. The refund includes original shipping costs only if the item is not as described in the listing, or under the theoretical possibility that it arrived damaged due to some error in packing. Unfortunately, it can't cover acts of hijinx by third-party shipping concerns -- for example, if a package sent through USPS were to be beaten up by a team of gorillas à la that iconic 1970s luggage commercial that everyone mistakenly remembers as an ad for Samsonite. It was for American Tourister -- we just checked because we're thorough that way.
About the Seller
Acme Book & Anvil
Biblio member since 2022
West Orange , New Jersey
About Acme Book & Anvil
We took a sabbatical to trade in vintage musical gear and hunt wild mushrooms, as one does, and during the whirlwind of it all, we got heavily into original books with color plates from the Golden Age of Illustration, meaning from roughly 1900 until the last really nice stuff in that lineage from the late 1930s (including late works by Harry Clarke and Arthur Rackham and credible reprint editions of earlier titles). Yes, we have fun. Our official métier is out-of-print academic books, leaning in a general way toward the social sciences and Continental philosophy.In actual practice, a lot of those books are presently hanging out in boxes waiting to be listed, with some boxes of fiction first editions (along an Updike-Cheever sort of continuum, with a García Márquez-Calvino cross-axis) and the cargo of splendid Edwardian illustrated gift books, as above. The takeaway: Got a lot coming up here.
Glossary
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
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