Search Results: the tinder box and other stories by hans christian andersen

London: Ward, Lock & Co. Book. Very Good. Decorative Hard Cover. Bound in original decorative green gilt & black-embossed cloth. Binding is sound; but the front cover bottom corner chewed away and the rear cover bottom corner soiled (confined to the bottom corner) - otherwise excellent. Text is quite clean. Illustrated. Early penned inscription, 'Mary White from your teacher K. Davis. Longuevil(?) Band of Hope, 1898.' Pagination begins with the number 285, ending at 336. No date, c 1890s..

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1875 approx.. Hardcover. Good. Frontis + 16 other illustrations. . Small octavo blue pictorial cloth (edges & spine rubbed) 120pp +[4]pp book lists. Lacks front free endpapers, frontis with part only coloured by a previous owner. A few other signs of use but generally clean with no loose pages. Contains 10 stories in addition to the Tinder-box. A neat Victorian edition.

London,, No Date C.1890. Hardback.. Some foxing at pages edges towards front with slight looseness at front board. Previous owner's name inscribed neatly at front paste-down. Overall very good.. 12mo. pp [v], 120, [4]. Original publisher's red cloth with black embossed lettering and decoration at front, and embossed in gilt at spine. Colour illustrated frontispiece, and illustrated throughout in black and white.

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Fairy Tale Gems from The Moorgate Library Series. Small format brown paper-backed boards with colour pictorial onlay by Attwell, no dustwrapper; 61pp, 58pp plus catalogue; four colour plates plus b/w ills. Slight lean to spine with light wear to extremities and light marking to rear board; foxing to page block edges and half-title page with light scatterings to pages; frontis has blue pen mark to mermaid's tale. A collection of eight fairy tales including 'The Little Mermaid' and 'The Red Shoes'. [1120: E2]. Hard Cover. Good Plus. Illus. by ATTWELL, Mabel Lucie. 125mm x 185mm.