Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen by Hans Andersen - 1932

W. Bromley, Hammersmith, London.,1799FIRST EDITION. Folio.(17.4 x 11.2 inches). 14pp, 9 pages of plates. An early issue of this work, with paper watermarked 1796. Stipple engraved, hand coloured title page and seven full page, hand coloured plates, plus full page engraved speech from As You Like it, titled The ages of Man, featuring one of Shakespeare's most enduring and often quoted lines - All the world's a stage, and all the men and women meerly players- each printed by R. Fenner. The plates are engraved by William Bromley after Stothards drawings. . Fine recent binding of quarter red straight grained morocco, the spine, ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Red morocco tips to corners of boards. Some offsetting from the Illustrations onto the text pages and some staining to the margins only on 5 pages but overall a very good attractive copy of this scarce and beautiful work.

Jonathan Cape. London. 1935. FIRST TRADE EDITION. 4to. Illustrated throughout with portraits, maps, plans and line drawings. Finely bound in recent full tan morocco, raised bands, gilt. Twin red labels, gilt. Single gilt decorative roll border on boards. Top edge gilt. A few light finger marks but overall a very good, bright copy.

Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. London. No Date. circa 1922. EARLY EDITION, with extra colour plate. 8vo. (7.5 x 6 inches). Complete, and with one more illustration than the original 1911 edition. Full colour illustrated frontispiece mounted onto grey art paper and with a tissue guard, decorative mono title page and twelve full page mono plates by Bedford. Internally this is a very good, bright and clean copy, in an attractive early half leather binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, of London, for E. P. Dutton & Company, New York. Half dark green calf. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments fully decorated and ruled in gilt. Twin burgundy labels, ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Off white silk bookmark. Rubbing to the outer layer of the leather on the binding edges, particularly the hinge on the lower board, but both hinges still firm and strong and still an attractive binding. A good looking copy of this classic title,… Read More

Berlin: Otto von Holten, 1921. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Wilhelm Schocken. LIMITIERTER HANDPRESSENDRUCK. Übertragung aus dem masoretischen Text und Druckleitung von LAZARUS GOLDSCHMIDT. Holzschnitte von WILHELM SCHOCKEN. Kleines Folio. Dekorativer geprägter Ganzleder- Meistereinband ( Euphorion-Einband) von Hubel und Denck , Leipzig. Rücken mit 5 Bünden und Goldbuchstaben. Mit 17 ORIGINAL-HOLZSCHNITTEN von WILHELM SCHOCKEN, davon sind sechs ganzseitig und vom Künstler in Bleistift SIGNIERT . EINMALIGE AUFLAGE von nur 105 NUMERIERTEN EXEMPLAREN. - Nr. 27 von nur 90 EXEMPLAREN, DIE FÜR DEN HANDEL BESTIMMT WAREN. - Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren . Ansonsten ein sehr schönes, sauberes und frisches Exemplar dieser seltenen Handpressen-Ausgabe. - Übersetzt ins Deutsche wurde dieses Werk aus dem masoretischen Text (dem URTEXT DER HEBRÄISCHEN BIBEL) von LAZARUS GOLDSCHMIDT(1871 Litauen -1950 London), einem der bedeutendsten Orientalisten und… Read More

Paris, Editions Filigranes, 1995. De-luxe edition. Loose sheets (319 pages) in portfolio with a separate album: "Reliures rares et curieuses conservées à la Bibliothèque Nationale de France" containing 20 photos pasted-on heavy paper. Two volumes together held in slipcase.This is copy number 167 of a limited edition of 250 copies.

Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1905. Reprint. 8vo. (6.1 x 4.1 inches). Finely bound, by Bumpus of London, in attractive early full dark green crushed morocco, extra gilt. The spine with raised bands, ruled in gilt. Compartments fully ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Elaborate Persian fan design to boards. Inner Dentelles fully decorated in gilt, surrounding red Moire silk centre pieces. Silk endpapers. All edges gilt. Previous owner's neat 4 line inscription, dated 1909, to front blank endpaper. The binding is a little rubbed to the extremities, ths spine faded to a uniform brown colour and the silk endpapers have some minor fraying to the edges but overall this is a highly decorative fine quality leather binding in very good condition.

The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1996. Fifth. Leather Bound. Fine/Near Fine. LIMITED DELUXE EDITION 1996. Edition of only 65 copies, this is copy 17. Book is in Fine condition with no noted flaws. Outer box is also Fine. Includes a fly hand-tied by Flemming Andersen, inset on inside front cover with the fly tier's initials in ink and protective textured tissue overlay. Text is printed on archival paper. Approximately 9.5" x 6.5". Black and white frontispiece. Separately-bound 1920 introduction by Sir Herbert Maxwell, laid in. Bound in full publisher's green morocco, gilt lettering, decoration and rules to spine, gilt fish design on front cover, blind rules to edges of front cover, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, green silk bookmark, housed in a green silk-lined drop-down box with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and embossed gilt fish design on front cover. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may… Read More

London: Printed for Private Distribution Only, 1898. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition, #10 of 30 copies. Rebound in full red leather by Zaehnsdorf. 1898 Full-Leather. 25 pp. Full red leather, gilt titles and rules, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Three short poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, etc.). This edition was never intended for public distribution, but examples of this 30-copy print run, which contains facsimiles of manuscript material, somehow found their way onto the market.

Constable and Company Limited. London. 1915. FIRST HEATH ROBINSON EDITION. Large 8vo. (8.7 x 7.1 inches). Beautifully illustrated with 8 full colour plates and 95 listed line drawings in the text, many full page, plus a few small vignettes, not in the list of illustrations. Finely bound in recent full dark green Morocco leather binding. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Single gilt ruled line border on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Original illustrated front board and spine bound in. Some offsetting to the half title and the last text page but generally a very good clean and bright copy throughout in an attractive leather binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Slipcase: Fine Second Edition. Four vols. Bound by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, England in 3/4 calf with marbled boards. Gilt top edge. Internally clean. Ownership bookplate on FFEPs. Vol. I external hinge has some external cracking to leather but still bound tightly. Light wear to the bindings. Some pencil underlines/markings to the text (can be erased). Also, a small number of pages have flaws with occasional stains/ and a few tiny holes. Overall, the internal pages are in excellent condition (minimal foxing and toning), given their age. They have been well cared for.Eugenia Stanhope, the impoverished widow of Chesterfield's illegitimate son, Philip Stanhope, was the first to publish the book Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), which comprises a thirty-year correspondence in more than 400 letters. Begun in 1737 and continued until the death of his son in 1768, Chesterfield wrote mostly instructive communications about geography,… Read More