Shoemaker's Son
Random & Junior Literary Guild, 1941 on title; blue boards, blue pictorial endpapers, 313 pp. Reference biography, hardback. "Life of Hans Christian Andersen."
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The Shoemaker's Son.
Harrap, 1950/1943. Reference biography, hardback. .
The Story of Hans Andersen, Swan of Denmark.
Dutton,1966/1949, 1st printing Am; 230 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
The Story of Hans Andersen.
Methuen, 1949, 1st printing; 136 pp. Reference biography, hardback. .
Hans Christian Andersen and his world.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1972); 18.5 x 23.5 cm; 128 pp incld Chronology, Notes on the Pictures, and Index. Reference biography, hardback. Andersen's life and character described by sympathetic translator of Andersen, using many contemporary graphics, portraits, sketches, photographs, and publications.
Hans Christian Andersen.
Odense, Denmark: Flensted 1961, appt 1st; translated from the Danish by Mabel Dyrup, dark blue boards with white Thumbelina, in jacket with coloured portrait of the author, 3.5x5.5"; 164 pp. Reference biography small hardback. A concise survey of the author's life, by the Director of the HCA Museum in Odense.....
Seven Tales.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959, presumed first (A34 jacket code, Hanrahan), black cloth boards, gilt titles, blindstamped border, in jacket with floral border and medieval scene and a rather inexplicable design, but the correct one, on back; translator's forward; 7 x 9"; 128 pp. Juvenile hardback. A handsome production.....
The Hill of Elves: Hans Christian Andersen 1805 - 1875 1975 CBC Poster.
New York: The Children's Book Council, 67 Irving Place, 1975; Translated by Erik Christian Haugaard; large poster two sided about 23 x 66. in brown mailing envelope from CBC, with page laid in showing how to transform the poster into a large booklet. Toploader large, softcover. A fairy tale poster.....
Fairy Tales, a new translation.
New York: William L. Allison Company, (early 19th c) nd. Juvenile hardback. Includes many old engravings. Harrison Weir, V. Pederson, M. L. Stone, A. W. Bayes, and others.
Hans Christian Andersens Alphabet (Andersen's)
Copenhagen: Thaning & Appel, 1955 on title page, no date on publication page; grey paper boards with tiny rose and dot pattern and photo of Andersen within a frame, pink spine, each page with couplet in Danish, letter highlighted in pink, in the bottom corner of the facing page is.....
A Visit to Portugal 1866.
Indianapolis: Bobbs, 1973, 1st printing Am; 104 pp. Juvenile hardback. First publication in English of a travel book by the great children's storyteller, with graphic description and 13 photos on 8 plates.
Thumbelina.
Scribners, 1961, 1st printing; translated by R. P. Keigwin. Reinforced cloth binding, 8.3x10; 58 pp. Picture Book hardback. Adams' delicate watercolours are perfect for this tale of flowers, meadow creatures, and tiny people.
Ardizzone's Hans Andersen; Fourteen Classic Tales.
London: Andre Deutch, 1978, 1st printing thus; top edge red. 7x9.6, 191 pp. Juvenile hardback. A selection by Ardizzone of his favorite tales for which he provides numerous illustrations. Who better to illustrate Andersen!
The Nightingale.
New York: Harper & Row, (1965); black pictorial cloth. 9.8x11", 33 pp. Picture Book hardback. Romantic illustrations for this tale.
Thumbelina.
New York: Margaret K. McElderry, 1997/1996, stated 1st American, nl; shiny boards with watercolour of Thumbelina sitting on a water lily leaf in the pond with her friends; 8.5x10.25"; np. Picture Book hardback. Lovely pictures of a charming and intelligent looking dark-haired Thumbelina and her world.
The Tinderbox.
New York: Macmillan, 1988, stated 1st, nl; dark blue boards, yellow endpapers, light blue jacket with soldier in red uniform holding the box; 9.8x11; 30 pp. Picture Book Hardback. Wonderful watercolours by this illustrator of classic tales... especially the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels.
The Ugly Duckling
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987, stated 1st, nl; blue boards with blue endpapers, in blue jacket with little duckling swimming all alone under the light of the moon on a quiet lake; oblong 11.25x8.75"; np. Picture Book hardback. Thomas Locker's magnificent paintings would have been as treasured when this.....
The Steadfast Tin Soldier.
HarperCollins, 1992, 1st printing 11.25x9.75; 28 pp. Picture Book hardback. Dark intense pictures which show the little soldier's upright character in contrast to his tiny size.
Great Claus and Little Claus.
Grove Press, 1968, 1st printing. 10.2x13; 32 pp. Picture Book hardback tall. Witty, intricately textured line drawings illustrate this humorous tale.
The Fir Tree.
London: Kaye & Ward, 1971, 1st UK thus illustrated, illus co. 1968, translation from the Danish taken from M. R. James Hans Christian Andersen: Forty-two Stories; printed in Denmark; illustrated on rather matte (unlike Viking) paper boards with a watercolour of children picking flowers next to the little fir tree.....
The Nightingale.
Abelard-Schuman, 1974, 1st Am; 8.25x11.25; 24 pp. Picture Book Hardback. Testa has transferred the setting of the story to a rather abstract European Middle Ages.
The Nightingale.
Picture Book Studio, USA,1984 thus illustrated; translated by Anthea Bell; pictorial boards, in jacket identical to boards; oblong; np. Picture Book hardback. Delicate watercolours influenced by Chinese paintings illustrate this version.
Le Rossignol.
Collection du Lys Dore, 1944; cream paper boards with full colour illustration of nightingale and child; pale blue and brown illustrated endpapers, 4.75x6.25"; 24 pp. French language small hardback. Detailed little coloured illustrations on every other page. The Nightingale. Uncommon.
Ce Que Fait le Vieux Est Bien Fait.
Paris: Flammarion, Albums de Pere Castor, 1950/1939; illustrated card boards SOFTCOVER; coloured illustrations on every other page; oblong 18.5x16.5 cm; np. French language softcover oblong. A happy version of the husband to market trading story, in which the wife is delighted that he has returned with nothing but a sack.....
Wonderful Stories for Children: First Series
New York: Wiley & Putnam, 161 Broadway 1847 on title page/1846, second American printing of the 1845 British first English translation by Howitt, brown cloth binding with blindstamped ruled and decorated borders top and bottom, and a delicate gilt stamped picture of a little girl in a garden, gilt decorated.....