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Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition with some condition issues. Missing pages 3-6, 93-96, 231-234. 24 of 28 tipped in color plates present and in excellent condition. Missing plates on page 5, 95, 233, and frontispiece for The Real Princess. Pages vii/viii, 89-92, detached from text block with final page hanging by a thread. The edges of loose pages have edge wear some 0.5 inch edge tears. PayPal accepted.
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 9 x 11 in. Tan cloth boards with gilt titles. Frontis and 27 color tipped-in plates. Tissue guard at frontis. Condition is GOOD - cloth has some small splits to the edges of spine outside, and inside the joints are started, with the muslin visible but holding. All 28 plates are excellent, bright and clean with no damage to edges. Small bookplate on 2nd blank, text unmarked. Covers have a few tiny spots and some minor toning. Good candidate for framing. Chil. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Bright tight condition light edgewear 1 page torn 28 tipped in color plates by Dulac
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrations complete, all plates are present. Beautifully Cased with the Original Front Boards and Spine. There is Bright Gold Gilt on the spine and the front cover. Publication of 250 pages. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. There is foxing around the block of the book and on the early and last pages, little within the body of the book. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$249.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. Undated [1911]. With 12 tipped on color plates by Dulac and the very scarce dustjacket. Pictorial off-white cloth printed in gilt and black, 133 pages plus colophon, matching dustjacket. Covers have some finger soil and a darkened strip along the far bottom of the front cover, rear hinge internally neatly reglued and secure, text block sound, numerous short closed tears to bottom margins of text pages (likely from little fingers a little too eager to flip pages) and small chips to two lower margins, plates all present and very good with one having a very short closed tear to the bottom, pages clean, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is uniformly age-darkened with much of the spine missing, some relatively mild chipping to top of front and rear panels. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is the first US trade edition in light brown buckram with gold stamping on the cover but faded away at the spine. Previous owner's name on the front flyleaf. Otherwise a VG, unmarked copy with all 28 tipped in color plates. Printed by T. & A. Constable, Illustrations by Henry Stone & Son, Ltd, Photos on request. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY, extra for airmail or international shipping.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Andersen [Hans]. STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSEN. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition printed in 1911, viii, 250pp, 28 mounted colour illustrations by Dulac, frontispiece with captioned tissue, some spotting to edges and prelims/end matter, occasional light spotting internally, not affecting the illustrations themselves (as far as I can see), only the borders, patterned endpapers, free endpapers have some tanning, original green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and upper board, spine ends a little crushed, some browning to spine. The light spotting does not detract from the attractivness of this volume. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS LARGE BOOK MAY INCUR ADDITIONAL CHARGES FOR OVERSEAS POSTAGE. Size: Quarto
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1911, 1st. Quarto. viii, 250pp. Complete with 28 tipped-in colour plates by Dulac, who also designed the other features of this edition such as the end papers, borders, etc. Original green cloth, decorative gilt titles. Spine a little faded/sunned. Some minor spots and stains to extremities, also some light rubbing. Former owner's neat gift inscription to end paper. Some spotting and browning to end papers. Sporadic marginal light spotting/foxing internally. Plates in nice clean condition. Overall a 'Very Good' copy. Heavy - shipping to be advised depending on destination.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$342.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pp.viii,252; 28 coloured plates. Original light green decorated cloth, slightly darker on spine. Occasional spots of foxing. A very good complete copy of this beautifully illustrated work.
Seller: Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
Price: US$349.05 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cream/light brown cloth hard cover (22x28cm) with gilt titles and decorative illustrations on both spine and front board, and no significant cover wear. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac with frontispiece including tissue guard and 27 further colour tipped-in plates, 250 pages. Published in 1911 this 1st edition beautifully illustrated by Dulac is in near fine to fine condition.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Price: US$391.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good copy of the first trade edition, in the original decorative cloth binding with 28 fine tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Dulac designed the edition and the work has decorative endpapers, decorative borders to pages and decorated leaves before each tipped in plate. The plate images have been much reproduced since on posters and cards. The binding has bright gilt decoration to the front board and spine. It has been expertly rebacked so is sound and tight. The spine is slightly darkened and there is light wear to edges and corners. The decorative endpapers have been retained with professional repair at the joints. Contents are complete and clean with slight offsetting from the plate pages to the opposing text and the occasional spot (eg the gutter of p 49) or light mark. Page edges are quite soft and have some toning as do the free endpapers. There is a stain and some fading from an old sellotape repair across p 53 (sellotape removed - and tear professionally repaired), and a couple of further small paper repairs. There is the outline of a pressed flower on the blank part of p 154.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Price: US$396.74 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Edition. 1911, Quarto. Publisher's original green cloth, decorative gilt titles, tight, Spine a little sunned. Some minor spots and stains on spine, also some light rubbing at spine ends; very good decorated end papers on both sides; inside excellent, no usage signs, .viii, 250pp. Complete with 28 tipped-in colour plates by Dulac, who also designed the other features of this edition such as the end papers, borders, etc.
Seller: Magnus, Paris, France
Hans Andersen Illustrator Edmund Dulac. Stories From Hans Andersen. Hodder & Stoughton, 1911.
Price: US$410.64 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stories From Hans Andersen, illustrated by Edmund Dulac, published Hodder And Stoughton London and New York 1911. First USA trade edition, published in the same year as the first Uk Edition. Quarto. Original tan ribbed cloth, gilt titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board, decorated endpapers. Illustrated frontispiece with captioned tissue guard and 28 tipped in glorious colour plates by Edmund Dulac. A lovely clean bright copy with only minor fox spotting to the fore edges and a little toning to the end papers. A classic title from the golden age of illustrated gift books.
Seller: Love Rare Books, St Leonards On Sea, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$417.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Please see photos as part of condition report 1911 1st Edition , STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSON By Hans Anderson Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes, have been translated into more than 125 languages. They have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. His most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Red Shoes", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Little Match Girl", and "Thumbelina". His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films. Illustrated By: Edmund Dulac Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; 22 October 1882 – 25 May 1953) was a French-British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. He then became a regular contributor to The Pall Mall Magazine, and joined the London Sketch Club, which introduced him to the foremost book and magazine illustrators of the day. Through these he began an association with the Leicester Galleries and Hodder & Stoughton; the gallery commissioned illustrations from Dulac which they sold in an annual exhibition, while publishing rights to the paintings were taken up by Hodder & Stoughton for reproduction in illustrated gift books, publishing one book a year. Books produced under this arrangement by Dulac include Stories from The Arabian Nights (1907) with 50 colour images; an edition of William Shakespeare's The Tempest (1908) with 40 colour illustrations; The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1909) with 20 colour images; The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales (1910); Stories from Hans Christian Andersen (1911); The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (1912) with 28 colour images and many monotone illustrations; and Princess Badoura (1913). Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Hodder & Stoughton, London quarto (4to 9+1?2 × 12 241 × 305),Pages 250 ISBN: 1911 1st Edition STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSON Hans Anderson with 28 tipped in plates by Edmund Dulac Hodder & Stoughton Approx size: 290mm x 230mm SKU: BTETM0001938 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Seller: Books That Expand The Mind, Margate, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$466.21 + shipping
Description: 290mm x 230mm (11" x 9"). viii, 250pp. 28 laid-in colour plates. Dulac (b.1882) studied at Académie Julian, in Paris before moving to London in 1906. He worked as an illustrator, portrait painter and costume designer being influenced by Middle and Far Eastern cultures. Heavy book- extra shipping needed for overseas. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Spine browned and slightly mottled. Cover marked. Inner hinge cracking. Sporadic foxing. Browning to fore edge. Edge wear
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Stories from Hans Andersen. Hodder & Stoughton, New York, 1911.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 28 fine mounted color plates by Edmund Dulac. 250pp., thick 4to, gilt decorated beige cloth, light rubbed at the spine extremes. New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. Very good (+).
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Andersen, Hans Christian. Stories from Hans Andersen. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Thick 4to., light brown cloth with ornate art nouveau Snow Queen cover and spine designs lettered in gilt. First trade edition. A gorgeous copy with twenty-eight tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Andersen, Hans; Dulac, Edmund (illus). Stories from Hans Andersen. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Second Edition. Hardcover. Widely considered one of Dulac's best works. Though obviously flawed, the presence of [most of] the very scarce DJ is quite unusual. Overall, a handsome copy of this significant work. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of glue toning at preliminaries, minor foxing at textblock fore-edge (non-penetrating), else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows heavy shelf wear, rear panel and flap missing, large chip at head (effecting title text, several small chips and closed tears, even toning, else clean and bright (color pictorial only by Dulac shows no rubbing or wear). Mustard/beige cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, decorative endpages, frontispiece, decorative boarders at each page, tipped in plates. Small 4to. 250pp. Illus. (color plates).
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 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 in the Western world. Here, his famed narratives get the artistic treatment of Dulac, who brings characters to life for the reader. Hughey 27b.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: 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 Charles Dickens as the most popular author in the Western world. Here, his famed narratives get the artistic treatment of Dulac, who brings characters to life for the reader. Hughey 27b.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Andersen, Hans. Stories from Hans Andersen. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911.
Price: US$1283.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback, original vellum with gilt titles and illustration to spine and front board, lacking ties. Decorative end-papers. 32cm x 26cm. 250pp. With 28 tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. No. 551 of a limited edition of only 750 deluxe copies, signed by Dulac. Very light soiling to binding. An excellent copy. A heavy book, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: viii, 250 pp. Full vellum binding with gilt-decoration and top edge gilt. Boards clean. Significant damage with loss to the head and webbing exposed 9apparently chewed by a dog), affecting the spine text. Minor shaking to the binding. Internally clean and bright, with owners name in ink to the verso of the frontis piece. Beautifully illustrated with 28 full-page tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Number 160, of an limited run of 750 and signed by the artist. 4to. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: original gilt decorated full vellum hardcover, top page edges gilt, tipped in colour plates all correct as called for, 250 pages, original? silk ties, limited edition this being number 231 of 750 copies signed by the Artist, small hole to one tie, two small private bookplates otherwise a lovely bright very good clean copy.
Seller: Carmarthenshire Rare Books, Carmarthen, United Kingdom
DULAC, Edmund; ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSEN. Hodder & Stoughton, 1911.
Price: US$1764.49 + shipping
Description: First edition with illustrations by Dulac. 4to. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Upper cover has an embossed illustration of an Art Nouveau style Snow Queen. Endpapers decorated with olive peacock design. Housed in original publisher's card box. A near fine copy, the gilt bright with some light foxing to endpapers, in a very good box, missing two edges to the lid. Twenty-eight mounted colour plates protected by captioned pages with designs in olive green. Each page is decorated with pictorial borders. Stories include: The Snow Queen, The Nightingale, The Real Princess, The Garden of Paradise, The Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Wind's Tale.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
DULAC, Edmund. Illustrated by.. Stories from Hans Andersen.. , 1911.
Price: US$1907.24 + shipping
Description: London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1911). 4to. Original vellum (shelf-soiled). Gilt. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. (viii, 250pp.). With 28 mounted colour plates including frontispiece. Limited 'de-luxe' edition of 750 copies signed by illustrator, this being No. 552. Slight soiling on end-papers and offsetting from plates throughout, otherwise a very good copy. NOTE: Han Christian Anderson wrote 156 fairy tales and stories, many of which have become part of popular culture. These include 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Princess and the Pea' and 'The Snow Queen'.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Edmund Dulac illus. Hans Andersen.. Stories from Hans Andersen.. Hodder & Stoughton,, 1911.
Price: US$1970.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Edition de Luxe. Large 4to. viii, 250, (ii)pp. Color frontispiece. 27 color plates, tipped-in, with descriptive tissue guard printed in black. Original decorated full vellum, very slightly worn, with silk ties renewed. With red cloth slipcase. Ex-libris put on front end-paper. Limited to 750 copies, this is No. 736, signed by the artist.
Seller: The Isseido Booksellers, ABAJ, ILAB, Tokyo, Japan
Andersen, Hans Christian. Stories from Hans Andersen. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: Full vellum titled and pictorially stamped in gilt. Lacking ties, near fine to fine in custom mylar cover and custom slipcase. First edition thus, limited issue, one of 750 copies, signed by Edmund Dulac.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$2117.39 + shipping
Description: [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.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Andersen, Hans. Stories from Hans Andersen. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911.
Price: US$2502.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: viii, 250pp, [2], original full vellum blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. Lacks ties, gilt to spine slightly dulled, internally quite bright and clean. With twenty-eight colour illustrations by Dulac, the limited de luxe edition, one of seven hundred and fifty copies, this being number six hundred and fifty, signed by Dulac to limitation leaf. With a flyer printed in red for an exhibition of the original water-colours laid in loosely to front Size: 4to
Seller: Temple Rare Books, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$2566.53 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 393 of 750 copies signed by the artist. The previous owner, Amanda Severne (1954-2008) of Shakenhurst Hall, Cleobury Mortimer, was herself a book illustrator and also worked in the animation business. She was a "key renderer" on Raymond Briggs's 1982 animated version of The Snowman. A review of the illustrated books of 1911 published in Art and Literature (December 1911) found one reviewer stating "in certain qualities of fantasy and delicate strength, and lurid, imaginative daring, Mr Rackham and Mr Pogany are. inimitable, but for sheer grace and poetry of feeling I am inclined to give the palm to Mr Edmund Dulac. I doubt if Mr Dulac has ever done better work as a book-illustrator than he has put into the series of colour-plates with which he has illustrated Hans Andersen.". The reviewer in the Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art (10 December 1911) stated simply that this was "a really beautiful book, with illustrations of exceptional merit. As pictures for children nothing could be more attractive than Mr Dulac's watercolour drawings". Hughey 27a. Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and 27 mounted colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Bookseller's label, and bookplate of Cecily Mary Severne to front pastedown, and that of Amanda Caroline Severne to front free endpaper. Binding slightly toned with front cover slightly bowed, lacking ties, light toning to free endpapers, occasional offsetting, occasional finger-soiling; a very good copy with bright uncreased plates.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Hans Christen Andersen. Stories from Hans Andersen. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarto. Bound in full vellum with elaborate gilt design and lettering to cover and spine. This is copy #515 of 750 copies SIGNED by Edmund Dulac. Twenty-eight color tipped in plates. A fine copy of one of Dulac's best books. Brown tie detached and laid in book. A bit of toning to the endpapers.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$3208.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original full morocco binding with gold tooling to spine and front board, Decorative end papers repeating the Peacock Design to front board, 250pp printed on Japanese velllum with 28 tipped in full colour plates by Edmund Dulac. De Luxe edition limited to 100 copies signed by Dulac of which this is number15. VG ( Book- A few marks to the leather binding with small chip to head of spine of up to 10x5mm. No previous owner name or inscription, Tissue guard to frontis browned. No other notable defects). One of the Scarcest Signed Limited Editions and therefore an investment opportunity.Oversize, 320x260mm approx. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.
Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Price: US$3208.16 + shipping
Description: First English trade edition. The collection comprises six stories: "The Snow Queen", "The Swineherd", "The Nightingale", "The Real Princess", "The Emperor's New Clothes", and "The Mermaid". A review of the illustrated books of 1911 published in Art and Literature (December 1911) found one reviewer stating "In certain qualities of fantasy and delicate strength, and lurid, imaginative daring, Mr Rackham and Mr Pogany are. inimitable, but for sheer grace and poetry of feeling I am inclined to give the palm to Mr Edmund Dulac. I doubt if Mr Dulac has ever done better work as a book-illustrator than he has put into the series of colour-plates with which he has illustrated Hans Andersen." The reviewer in the Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art (10 December 1911) stated simply that this was "a really beautiful book, with illustrations of exceptional merit. As pictures for children nothing could be more attractive than Mr Dulac's watercolour drawings". Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco,spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial title block to front board gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, blue and gold snowflake patterned endpapers, gilt edges. With 28 tipped in colour plates. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stories from Hans Andersen Signed by Edmund Dulac DULAC, Edmund. Stories from Hans Andersen with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. London, Hodder and Stroughton: 1911. First edition. Limited to 750 copies, signed by Dulac, of which this is copy number 82. With 28 gorgeous tipped-in colour plates by Dulac. Quarto. Beautifully bound in full vellum, ornately gilt-stamped on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Yellow silk ties. Decorative endpapers. An almost fine copy with no previous owner's notations. Contains seven Hans Andersen Tales including, "The Mermaid" and the "The Emperor's New Clothes." A scarce and desirable title, especially in such fine condition.
Seller: Weinstein-Perez Rare Books, Studio City, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3800.00 + shipping
Description: One of 100 Copies Printed on Japanese Vellum Signed by Edmund Dulac A Unique Copy In a Handsome, Unrecorded Variant Binding [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. ANDERSEN, Hans [Christian]. Stories from Hans Andersen. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. Edition de Luxe, limited to 100 numbered copies printed on Japanese Vellum and signed by the artist, this copy being no. 20. Large quarto (12 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches; 309 x 249 mm.). viii, 250, [2] pp. 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 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. Original dark chocolate brown pigskin pictorially stamped with three-peacock design and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, with Hodder & Stoughton gilt-stamped at spine foot. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Endpapers printed in pale green with repeated design of stylized peacocks. A stunning copy, unique, and arguably the finest copy of the De Luxe Edition. The binding and endpapers do not conform to Hughey's description, and appear to be unique to this handsome copy. As she notes, the pigskin binding, ("brandy colour," not dark chocolate-brown, as here), should only have two thin gilt rules as frame, gilt lettering, date 1911 on spine, and white endpapers, not illustrated as here and in the trade edition. We contacted her for insight. Having seen only two copies of the Edition De Luxe, William Randolph Hearst's and another viewed at a Washington book fair, she reports: "So, where does your copy fit in? And when was it bound? I tend to think it was done close to original printing time, November 1911. There were a lot of oddball copies done then.The title was sold very quickly - all sold by December 1911. The fact that your endpapers are paper available at the time [to the trade edition] tends to date it.It is possible that someone or firm had this done for your copy #20. Your copy's binding design on front cover is clearly an adaptation of the endpapers but I do not think by Dulac as it does not appear in any of his other editions of Hans Andersen's work. Someone may not have liked the plain cover." If that's the case, we'd like to thank them. This special copy is the better for it. Hughey 27.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3849.80 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 26 of 750 copies signed by the artist. "A really beautiful book, with illustrations of exceptional merit. As pictures for children nothing could be more attractive than Mr Dulac's watercolour drawings" (Review). A prospectus for the opening exhibition of the original artwork is loosely inserted. In an overview of the illustrated book market, one contemporary commentator stated that "for sheer grace and poetry of feeling I am inclined to give the palm to Mr Edmund Dulac. I doubt if Mr Dulac has ever done better work as a book-illustrator than he has put into the series of colour-plates with which he has illustrated Hans Andersen" (Art and Literature, December 1911). Hughey 27a. Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, 10 December 1911. Quarto. Original vellum, spine lettered and stamped with decorative device in gilt, front cover with twin fillet and decorative border enclosing lettering and pictorial device in gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, silk ties renewed. Colour frontispiece, with captioned tissue guard, and 27 colour plates with captions printed on facing leaves, all tipped inside green frames, as issued, by Dulac. Text printed within green borders with floral head- and tailpieces throughout. Finely etched chivalric knight bookplate of Walter Seawell Ward (1847-1919), a Bradford tailor and sidesman at Ascension Church Balham. Gilt and vellum bright, notwithstanding natural discolouration to spine and green marks to rear joint, occasional faint browning to contents, illustrations unaffected. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION. A beautiful copy authentically SIGNED by Edmund Dulac on the limitation page. The book is in excellent condition and is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with slight wear. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy SIGNED by Edmund Dulac. We buy SIGNED Dulac First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.