Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Andersen, Hans. Stories from Hans Andersen. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1911.
Price: US$1292.17 + 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$1615.22 + 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
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$2132.08 + 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$2519.74 + 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$2584.34 + 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$3230.43 + 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$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$3876.52 + 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.