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Fairy Tales
by Andersen, Hans
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton [10], 11-197pp, [1], n.d. but 1924. Publishers gilt decorated full vellum, t.e.g. Vellum slightly discoloured to spine, top corner of upper cover bumped, boards very slightly splayed. Edges of text block browned, occasional patches of light foxing, small booksellers label to foot of front pastedown, but otherwise generally fairly clean. With twelve colour tissue guarded plates by Nielsen and other black and white drawings throughout. Number fourteen of five hundred copies, signed by the artist to the limitation leaf. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Nielsen, Kay. Folio. Limited De Luxe Edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Temple Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001488
- Title
- Fairy Tales
- Author
- Andersen, Hans
- Illustrator
- Nielsen, Kay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- Folio
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Nielsen, Andersen, Fairy Tales, Gift Books, Vellum
Terms of Sale
Temple Rare Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Temple Rare Books
Biblio member since 2012
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Temple Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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