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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. Special Edition . Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dulac, Edmund. Special edition thus. Not dated c.1938 (first edition was 1911) Quarto hardback, 222 pp. illustrated throughout by Edmund Dulac (12 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations plus endpapers in red). Beige boards with red pictorial illustration . Near Very Good condition. No inscriptions.

First Edition, First Printing (c.1920). Very good plus in deep navy pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Illustrated with 12 beautiful, full-page, tipped in color plates by Dulac. All present. Missing the very rare dust jacket. Cover a bit soiled, with cover gilt bright, but dull on the spine. Internally fine, clean and bright. Overall, a very nice copy.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. First trade edition. Original pale olive green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. End-papers printed in pale green with repeated design of stylized peacocks. Minor browning to end-papers, minimal foxing to first and last few leaves, neat ink inscription on verso of frontispiece. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Mounted color frontispiece, with descriptive tissue guard printed in black, and twenty-seven mounted color plates (included in pagination). Plates framed with thick pale green line border and accompanied by guard leaves printed in pale green with stylized pineapples on the recto and a border of snowflakes above descriptive caption on the verso. Text pages with pale green snowflake borders at top and bottom. All leaves framed with double pale green lines. A Very Good copy. During his lifetime, Hans Christian Andersen, whose every fairy tale has become a classic, was second only to Charles Dickens as the most popular author… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. First trade edition. Original pale olive green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. End-papers printed in pale green with repeated design of stylized peacocks. Minor browning to end-papers, bookplate on front paste-down. Minimal creasing to cloth on front edge of spine. With the original Leicester Galleries Exhibition announcement loosely laid-in. Mounted color frontispiece, with descriptive tissue guard printed in black, and twenty-seven mounted color plates (included in pagination). Plates framed with thick pale green line border and accompanied by guard leaves printed in pale green with stylized pineapples on the recto and a border of snowflakes above descriptive caption on the verso. Text pages with pale green snowflake borders at top and bottom. All leaves framed with double pale green lines. A Very Good copy. During his lifetime, Hans Christian Andersen, whose every fairy tale has become a classic, was second only to… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.viii; 250 [2]. With 28 colour plates illustrated by Dulac, including a frontispiece. An out-of-series copy numbered 0000, from a series numbered officially at 750 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to the limitation page. Possibly the Publisher's File Copy, according to a stamp on the fly-leaf. Publisher's full vellum, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. 'Publisher's' [file copy?] stamp to fly-leaf, partially obscured with an adhesive mark and hand-written ink numbers, scored out. Otherwise internally crisp and clean. Lacks silk ties. Binding shows fairly light wear, with moderate surface marking, and minimal bowing to boards. Very good.

Rare exhibition copy of Limited de Luxe Edition. Includes exhibition note for Leicester Square Galleries, Nov. 18, 1911. Inscribed and signed by Dulac, including a beautiful hand-drawn 'Chinese Mandarin' to the gallery owner. One of a kind. No jacket, as issued. Just abut fine in green cloth with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt cover and spine designs. Tony scuff to front cover, and toning on front free endpaper. With twenty-eight, full-page, tipped in, color illustrations by Dulac. A wonderful copy of one of Dulac's best books.