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Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Andersen Illustrated by Rex Whistler. Bound by Leighton-Straker. LIMITED SIGNED COPY.
by (WHISTLER, REX) ANDERSEN, HANS:
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- Hardcover
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- first
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Cobden-Sanderson Ltd., 1935 1st thus (Ltd only 200 copies signed). Hardback, 8.25 x 5.5 inches. Cream buckram cloth with full embossed gilt decorations to boards and spine. Full gilt page edges and decorative green printed endpapers. In very good condition. Minor mark to cloth on rear else cover clean and smart. Rubbed inscription on front endpaper (paper rubbed through). Signed on halftitle page by Illustrator Rex Whistler. A couple of minor light handling marks to pages. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 470pp. Illustrated with 10 full page plates and many smaller in text by Rex Whistler.
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- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Title
- Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Andersen Illustrated by Rex Whistler. Bound by Leighton-Straker. LIMITED SIGNED COPY.
- Author
- (WHISTLER, REX) ANDERSEN, HANS:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Cobden-Sanderson Ltd., 1935 1st thus (Ltd only 200 copies signed)
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books Signed, Limited Edition, Illustrated, Fairy Tales, Hans Andersen, Rex Whistler, 1935,
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Gilt
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- Buckram
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- Cloth
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- 1st Thus
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