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1st Thus 21 x28 cm pictorial paper covered boards. Unpaginiated 37 fairy tales from the Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen with 8 full page colour plates by Anne Anderson and 90 black line illustrations within the text. In original dust jacket. The boards are clean and bright with a little shelf wear and some rubbing to the spine tips and corners with tiny splits at the joint tips. There is a small corner crease to the top corner of the front board. Internally, without name, inscription or bookplate and just the occasional spot mainly on the text pages facing the colour plates. All plates are present and in fine condition noting a marginal corner crease to the plate titled 'Strong Hans' which is the result of a production fault as can be seen from the fact that the top corner of the plate is uncut. The dust jacket which is now protected in a removable, clear cover has losses to the head and foot of the spine which extend half way onto the rear panel, to a depth of 2.5cm on the top edge and 3.5 cm on the bottom edge. All in all a profusely illustrated book with some lovely colour plates. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Very good copy in the original cloth-backed, color-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Subjects; Fairy tales - Denmark. Children's stories, Danish ; translations into English. 1 Kg.

1st Edition. Quarto. Pictorial boards with red cloth spine. Illustrated dust jacket matches the front board. Small chip to bottom front of the dust jacket; minor soiling to back of the dust jacket and small closed tear to bottom of the spine. Eight coloured plates and several ink drawings throughout by Ethel Betts and Harry Clarke. Not dated, but style of illustrations suggests early 1930s. Minor foxing to text block--inside contents clean and binding tight. very good A wonderful and extensive selection of fairy tales by Hans Christian and the Brothers Grimm, including the original version of the somewhat tragic the Little Sea Maid (The Little Mermaid). A scarce book, rarely seen with the dust jacket.

1st Edition. Quarto. Pictorial boards with red cloth spine. Illustrated dust jacket matches the front board. Small chip to bottom front of the dust jacket; minor soiling to back of the dust jacket and small closed tear to bottom of the spine. Eight coloured plates and several ink drawings throughout by Ethel Betts and Harry Clarke. Not dated, but style of illustrations suggests early 1930s. Minor foxing to text block--inside contents clean and binding tight. very good A wonderful and extensive selection of fairy tales by Hans Christian and the Brothers Grimm, including the original version of the somewhat tragic the Little Sea Maid (The Little Mermaid). A scarce book, rarely seen with the dust jacket.

Rare gift book 8" x 9 3/4" design. No date; circa 1936. Sienna full cloth boards, black cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear, bump. Pages very good, no writing; attractively toned. Montage illustrated endpapers. Dynamically and wonderfully complex art deco style imagery by Joyce Mercer throughout. Includes sixteen color plates and over two hundred and fifty black and white drawings. Dust wrapper, moderate shelf wear, rub, chip; unclipped 10/6 net, protected in new clear sleeve. Rare wrapper features effusive montage of scenes in color at front panel wrapping around to spine. Back panel features pictorial adverts for: Wings of Speed; Let's Be Gay; and, Let's Be Absurd. At back flap, summary advert for George Wright's The Wandering Whipsnaders. Rare very good example in near very good original wrapper. From front flap summary: "The exquisite art of Miss Joyce Mercer has never found a more suitable medium than the illustration of these famous tales. Although children enjoy the stories in themselves, there is a great advantage in having them illuminated with the wit and understanding of Miss Mercer's imagination, for they enable the youthful mind to envisage with greater clarity the characters and incidents in the stories, and we do not doubt that this will be accepted as the edition of Andersen and Grimm." The complete edition with 318 and 252 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall