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The Wild Swan: The Life and Times of Hans Christian Andersen by Stirling, Monica
First Edition
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Price:
£6.00
($ 9.63)
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Book description: London: Collins, 1965. Well illustrated with many photographs, 384pp including extensive Bibliography and Index. The tailpieces to the chapters are reproduced from paper cut-outs made by Andersen. The endpapers show some of the illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen for the first German collected edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. Andersen's Fairy Tales are part of every child's heritage. Yet their creator has remained to most people a shadowy figure: a poor cobbler's son who lived and died in a little Danish town. How mistaken is this assessment of Andersen's remarkable life and achievement Monica Stirling reveals in this engrossing book, which places him firmly in his wider European setting as man of letters, inveterate traveller, and friend of kings. Some foxing spots to leading page edges, top edges blue; cloth boards and contents in nice condition. Dust-jacket has a crease to rear flap, minor foxing spots to inside, and some rubbing and tiny tears repaired with archival tape; jacket is in loose protective cover. A Very Good+ copy in a Very Good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+/Very Good.
- Bookseller: Kalligraphia
 (GB)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 000604
- Format/binding: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good+
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Collins
- Place: London
- Date published: 1965
- Keywords: Monica Stirling Wild Swan Life Times Hans Christian Andersen Biography Denmark Author Writer First Edition CBBLKNM
- Subjects:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General;
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