Payne Mark Teague Steve Johnson Lou Fancher Daniel Adel Carter Goodrich S. Sorry: book is too large for expedited domestic or any international shipping without pre-approval of extra (at least double) shipping charges per USPS rates. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST) later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Former owner's name & address & date in neat pen on ffep. Glossy decorative boards are clean & colorful, but darkened interior pages creamy white, colors bright. Laminated acetate covering is intact with some rubbing at lower extremities. Binding secure, but paper covering spine is completely missing for the first 3" from top of spine down. A FIRST EDITION, first printing from 1962, this oversized hardcover book is in VG condition: extremely clean, with the occasional spot or smudge. Lovely collection of 5 most-loved fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, part of a series of "Marvelous Tales" issued by Macmillan in the early 1960s, each with Commentary by a famous author (here, Isak Dinesen), & beautifully illustrated throughout in soft watercolor designs by different artists-here, Italians Sandro Nardini & Ugo Fontana.
Nardini, Sandro Fontana, Ugo (illustrator). The unclipped DJ is only Fair, downgraded due to heavy edgewear & bookworm damage (holes, rubbed areas). Binding is strong & straight, pages white. Condition is VG: very clean internally, though bottom outside page edges show light staining & there is faint foxing to fore edge. Hardcover book has a creamy beige linen-wrapped spine with gray paper over half of both boards & gilt lettering. published in this format in Denmark in 1976, this is the First English-language version with the new Introduction by Elias Bredsdorff from 1982. Keigwin, with lovely pen-and-ink illustrations throughout the 483 pages by Vilhelm Pedersen & Lorenz Frolich.
Collection of 80 tales from Andersen, including famous as well as lesser-known ones, translated from the original Danish by R. Pedersen, Vilhelm Frolich, Lorenz (illustrator).
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