Stories from Hans Andersen (with illustrations, and signed by, Edmund Dulac)
by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, EDMUND DULAC (ILLUSTRATOR)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- First Trade Edition. No jacket, as issued. Just abut fine in green cloth with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt cover and spine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Rare exhibition copy of Limited de Luxe Edition. Includes exhibition note for Leicester Square Galleries, Nov. 18, 1911. Inscribed and signed by Dulac, including a beautiful hand-drawn 'Chinese Mandarin' to the gallery owner. One of a kind. No jacket, as issued. Just abut fine in green cloth with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt cover and spine designs. Tony scuff to front cover, and toning on front free endpaper. With twenty-eight, full-page, tipped in, color illustrations by Dulac. A wonderful copy of one of Dulac's best books.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31594
- Title
- Stories from Hans Andersen (with illustrations, and signed by, Edmund Dulac)
- Author
- HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, EDMUND DULAC (ILLUSTRATOR)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - First Trade Edition. No jacket, as issued. Just abut fine in green cloth with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt cover and spine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1911
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ILLUSTRATED
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE;
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- Inscribed
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- 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....