HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES
Written by Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson
Published by Hodder & Stoughton; Boots the Chemists
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HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES
Written by Hans Christian Andersen.
Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1825385
Circa.
1930.
Hardback.
Large format.
Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.
Published for Boots The Chemist. Large format. Red cloth covers, gilt titles. 16 colour tipped-in plates. Many b/w illustrations. 319 pages. 10 x 7.5". Light rubbing to corners. Gift insription in ink to front pastedown. Text block browned. A few grubby marks to contents. Plates are fine. Some b/w illustrations coloured in with colouring pencils. A few pages have a tiny piece of the lower corner missing. Dustwrapper is chipped at corners, a large amount of loss to base of spine (3") and thus spine of book is lightly faded where the dustwrapper is missing, also a little creased.
Front cover
Contents
- The Marsh King's Daughter
- Tommelise
- The Snow Queen
- Part the first - which treats of the Mirror and its Fragments
- Part the second - A little boy and a little girl
- Part the third - The Enchanted Flower -Garden
- Part the fourth - The Prince and the Princess
- Part the fifth - The Little Robber-Maiden
- Part the sixth - The Lapland woman and the Finland woman
- Part the seventh - Which treats of the Snow Queen's Palace, and of what came to pass therein
- Elfin-Mount
- The Little Mermaid
- The Storks
- The Nightingale
- The Wild Swans
- The Real Princess
- The Red Shoes
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- The Swineherd
- The Flying| Trunk
- The Leaping Match
- The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweeper
- The Ugly Duckling
- The Naughty Boy