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EVENTYR ET HISTORIER. [Set of Five Volumes]
Med Illustrationer ester Originaltegninger af. B. Bedersen.
Kobenhavn: Gyldendalste Boghandel, 1897. Five volumes, square 8vo., pp.(iv),440, pictorial red cloth, gilt, pictorial spines, decorated endpapers, marbled edges, frontispieces and pictorial title pages, illustrated throughout; spines lightly and uniformly sunned, light rubbing to extremities, most noticeably at tailbands, a very good, bright set.
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HOUSEHOLD STORIES FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM.
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1922. Bayntun/Riviere binding, 8vo., pp.269,(i), bound into navy calf by Bayntun/Riviere, with decorated gilt spine and inner dentelles, five raised bands, red gilt-lettered label to spine, t.e.g., marbled endpapers with binder’s gilt device in leather to front paste-down endpaper, decorative title, b/w plates, illustrations and head- and tailpieces; a fine copy.
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FOUR TALES FROM HANS ANDERSEN: A New Version of the First Four.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1935. First edition thus, 8vo.,pp. xi,76, blue cloth, with dark blue lettering to spine, b/w woodcuts, colour woodcut to frontispiece; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, foxing and toning to endpapers and to edges, webbing visible occasionally to inner hinge, a very good copy, in a good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is foxed and rubbed with creasing to spine, wear to corners and to head of spine, with creased tears to rear upper margin.
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TALES FROM DENMARK.
London: Joseph Cundall, 1847. First edition thus, small 8vo., pp.174, half dark brown morocco with 5 raised bands and gilt borders to compartments, lettering gilt, paper-covered boards with checked design, a.e.g., frontispiece and 7 further dichromatic plates, as well as numerous in-text illustrations and decorations; rubbing and light wear to extremities, professional repair to headband and upper joint (small area of gilt to upper compartment missing), with upper corner of rear board worn and re-touched, small closed tear to front free endpaper, foxing to frontispiece recto, otherwise internally fresh, and overall a very good copy of this scarce volume.
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THE STORY OF BLUE BEARD.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895. First edition, 8vo., pp.62, uncut, pictorial green cloth stamped in navy, and lettered in navy to spine, both boards fully decorated, pictorial headpiece to half title, pictorial title lettered in red, full pictorial and decorative Arts and Crafts style borders to text throughout, as well as 8 black and white plates, pictorial vignette to p.62; toning to free endpapers, light rubbing to extremities, a fresh and bright copy of this scarce volume, a very good copy indeed.
More details Price: £245.00