Title: Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen
Volumes: 1
Publisher: Garden City Publishing Company
Date: 1924
Binding: Hard cover, blue boards with red title font.
Page decoration: Seven full-color illustrations
Signature: None
Number of pages: 272
Provenance: Dutchess County Estate
Size: H. 8.75x W. 6.0x D. 1.5"
Weight: 1lbs 9.0 oz
Condition: Protected by plastic sheathing, the cover has only very slight bumping. The pages, on the bottom, have minor discoloration. Binding is tight and firm, pages completely legible and undamaged. All Illustrations remain intact. Meta: Fairy Tale, Anderson, Classics, Collected Stories
History: This book was from the library of the esteemed Ami Brown, one of Israel's foremost art collectors. The illustrative works of Kay Nielsen contained within are difficult to come by, and paired with a first American Edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales makes the book a rare find, indeed. Though the author wrote many plays, novels, and poems, it was these fairy tales that have immortalized Andersen.