FAIRY TALES by Andersen, Hans Christian - 1899

London: George Newnes. Contains The Red Shoes, The Chimney Sweep, The Nightingale, The Garden of Paradise, The Little Swineherd, A Week with Ole Luk-oie, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Ice-Maiden or the Eagle's Nest, The Storks, The Ugly Duckling, The Wild Swans, The Marsh King's Daughter, The Little Mermaid, The Girl who Trod on the Loaf, The Constant Tin Soldier, The Snow Queen, The Fellow-Traveller, The Little Match Girl, The Real Princess, Under the Willow, Little Claus and Big Claus, The Shadow, The Story of a Mother, The Flying Trunk, The Tinder-Box, The Goloshes of Happiness, Holger Danske, The Fir Tree, Little Tuk, What the Moon Saw, The Bronze Pig, Ib and Little Christine, The Cripple, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. Approx. 11" x 9", page edges gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated blue cloth boards worn on extremities and spine edges, gilt decoration on spine rubbed and title dulled, small stain first board lower edge, board hinge joints pulled exposing underlying threads, first free endpage chipped on edges, several hinge joints pulled but binding still fairly tight, few minor stains in page lower margins - otherwise, Good. . Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 1899. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.