FAIRY TALES
Striking Gilded-Age edition of Andersen's fairy tales, featuring full-page chromolithographs executed by Emrik & Binger.
Striking Gilded-Age edition of Andersen's fairy tales, featuring full-page chromolithographs executed by Emrik & Binger.
First edition, US issue, of Clarke's first illustrated book, a stunning Beardsley-esque interpretation of the Danish fairy tales.
Stunning Art Nouveau-style illustrated edition of Andersen's fairy tale, printed in Bavaria with rich full-page color lithographs.
First edition thus of this new selection and translation of sixteen fairy tales, chosen as the "most suited for juvenile reading" — with a small arsenic-green bookplate to front pastedown.
Early English edition of these classic fairy tales, including "The Ugly Duck[ling]," "The Princess and the Peas," and "The Little Mermaid."
First illustrated American edition, published only a year after the UK first, of the first translated collection into English of Andersen's fairy tales, with three of four plates.
Original paper cabinet box set of fairy tales by the Danish master of the form, featuring double-door openings and twelve miniature volumes.
First US edition of this fairy tale collection translated by Mrs. Bushby, who also translated one of the first collections of Andersen's tales into English in 1846.
Charming Attwell edition of Andersen's tales, including "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Mermaid" in Attwell's distinctive curving elfin style.
First edition of this biography in Danish of Andersen and his close environment — written by his goddaughter.
Mixed set of the complete Christmas Stocking series, with each classic children's book in stocking-stuffer size featuring an introduction by L. Frank Baum.
3'' tall book of poetry for children, issued during the Civil War in Buffalo, New York — including a verse adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl."
First edition of this unusually formatted collection of fairy tales, including Little Red Riding Hood, The Ugly Duckling, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, and more.
Signed limited first Rackham edition, one of only 500 copies for sale signed by Rackham – an exceptionally beautiful copy.
First US trade edition with Nielsen's spectacular illustrations, among the greatest of all the many Golden Age interpretations of Andersen.
First printing of this collection of classic Hans Christian Andersen stories gathered to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Andersen Press, with illustrations by artists from around the world.
Signed limited edition, one of only 500 numbered copies signed by one of the greatest Golden-Age illustrators, Kay Nielsen.
First edition of this early collection in English of Andersen's new fairy tales, including six appearing in English for the first time.
First Rackham-illustrated edition, US issue, an exceptional survival in the rare original dust jacket and pictorial publisher's box.
First US edition of this newly translated collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories, including The Princess and the Pea, The Ugly Duckling, and Thumbelina (here translated as "Inchelina").
Signed first printing of this collection of beloved fairy tales, including THE LITTLE MERMAID, THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, THUMBELINA, and THE UGLY DUCKLING, with intricate illustrations by award-winning artist Gennady Spirin.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 100 copies signed by Robinson, of this collected edition of the celebrated fairy tales by the Danish master of the form.
First edition, first printing of this uncommon Hans Christian Andersen title, an excellent copy.
First edition of this illustrated collection, with 14 of Andersen's fairy tales in a color palette similar to Ann Anderson's work.