Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen - 1945

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1945. Hardcover. Dark green buckram over boards with color lithograph of Chinese Emperor w/nightingale to front board and gilt-blocked lettering to spine. Endpapers illustrated in brilliant color with montage of characters. Eight color plates and many monochrome illustrations. Good book / no jacket. Front hinge cracked. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise unmarked. Spine straight, ends bumped and rubbed. Covers clean and bright with light edgewear. Not from a library. 343 pages. Translated by Mrs. E. V. Lucas & Mrs. H. B. Paull.

Tales include: The Garden of Paradise; Little Tiny; The Fir Tree; The Storks; Little Ida's Flowers; The Red Shoes; The Ugly Duckling; The Girl Who Trod on a Roof; The Bottle Neck; The Snow Queen; The Marsh King's Daughter; The Wild Swans; Great Claus and Little Claus; The Shepherdess and the Sweep; The Bell; The Angel; The Nightingale; Holger the Dane; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Steadfast Tin Soldier; The Little Match Girl; The Swineherd; Elder-Tree Mother; Hans Clodhopper; The Princess and the Pea; What the Good Man Does Is Always Right; The Roses and the Sparrows; The Old Street Lamp; and, The Tinder Box.