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. Hansel and Gretel #463/600 SIGNED by Kay Nielsen 12 Plates 1925. Hodder and Stoughton, 1925.
Price: US$735.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The book is in fair condition. This is a large book, measuring 9" x 11." The spine is worn along both edges. The front free endpaper is missing. There is some wear to the hinges. There is a small bookplate in the rear. The pages are clean and free of foxing. This book contains all 12 of Nielsen's original tipped in color plates, with none missing, removed, or loose. Several pages and tissue guards are detached, but all pages are present. Several pages have some wear to their edges. This is the Limited edition # 463 of only 600 copies signed by Kay Nielsen. One of Kay Nielsen's rarest works complete with many beautiful illustrations.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1295.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book is in good condition. This is a large book, measuring 9" x 11." There is some darkening to tthe spine and wear to the spines label. There are no signatures, bookplates or markings of any kind. The pages are clean and free of foxing. This book contains all 12 of Nielsen's original tipped in color plates, with none missing, removed, or loose. The book comes with its rare original slipcase. The slipcase has some darkening and is missing a piece of its top edge. This is the Limited edition # 46 of only 600 copies signed by Kay Nielsen. One of Kay Nielsen's rarest works complete with many beautiful illustrations.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarto, orange boards and quarter vellum with morocco label lettered in gilt; top edge gilt; covers soiled; worn publisher's slipcase. First American limited edition. One of 600 numbered copies, with 12 full-page color plates, signed by the illustrator Kay Nielsen. A stunning production.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 600 Copies Signed and Numbered by the Artist NIELSEN, Kay, illustrator. GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm. Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1925]. American signed limited edition, comprised of 600 copies numbered and signed by the artist, this being copy no. 49. Large quarto (11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches; 301 x 246 mm). [12], 275, [1], [4, blank] pp. Twelve mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards. Ten black and white plates (included in pagination). Title and initials letters printed in red and black. Handsomely bound by The Chelsea Bindery (stamp-signed on front turn-in) in full black crushed levant morocco, covers ruled in gilt, front cover with original gilt stamp, spine with five raised bands, bordered and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, plum end-papers (original decorative end-papers preserved), top edge gilt, others uncut. A very fine copy. There was no signed limited English edition of this book. "In an attempt to reinvigorate the market for gift books after the war, Hodder & Stoughton resumed the publishing of Kay Nielsen's books, though on a more modest scale. In 1924 they published a work that Nielsen had begun in 1912, Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, including sixteen stories illustrated with twelve watercolors. Nielsen returned to London, and in 1925 his final book for Hodder & Stoughton, Hansel and Gretel, appeared with twelve color plates" (Susan E. Meyer, A Treasury of the Great Children's Book Illustrators, p. 206). Larkin, p. 13.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.