Published by Heritage Press, New York, 1943
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Half Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Fritz Kredel (illustrator). Half red cloth, yellow boards patterned with drawings of fairy tale characters. Boards very faintly foxed, else fine. Armorial bookplate. Size: 8vo.
Published by The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf - The Heritage Press / Anchor Books Doubleday, New York, 1948
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated in color by Fritz Kredel (illustrator). A pair of volumes collecting the tales of Hans Christian Andersen, "The Longer Stories" here found in a "very good" 1948 octavo hardcover with NO dust jacket, the second volume being a more recent (1983) hefty octavo trade PAPERBACK, of 1,101 pp., as-new unread but with the corners of the front wrap starting to curl up a bit, the pair weighing in at about 4-1/2 pounds (2.1 kilos), which would make shipment outside the U.S. fairly pricey, the pair now combined into a single lot to consolidate domestic shipping. Reduced from $16.
Published by Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf (NY) for Limited Ed, 1942
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1942; New York; yellow cloth covered boards with red titles and designs; ***COVER DOES NOT MATCH PHOTO***; light edge wear and soiling; slipcase is very rubbed and edge worn but box is not broken at all; Interior is clean and unmarked; illustrations throughout; 8vo, 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall; 297 pages; Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.
Published by THE HERITAGE PRESS U.S.A., 1942
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. In slipcase; 8.70 X 5.30 X 1.20 inches.
Published by The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, NY, 1942
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. In publisher's lightly chipped glassine DJ, in very good illustrated slipcase ; Illustrated yellow cloth hardcover. Part-color illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii + 297 pages.
Slipcased. Condition: Good. Kredel, Fritz (illustrator). Book Club Edition. A collection of 25 tales by Andersen translated by Jean Hersholt, with colored drawings by Fritz Kredel throughout the 297 pages of text. Orig. published in this format in 1942 by the Limited Editions Club, this is a slipcased edition issued as part of the Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf. The hardcover book has light yellow cloth-covered boards decorated & lettered in red. Condition is Good+: very clean, with some light smudging to both covers. Spine is more heavily darkened from being pulled in & out of slipcase. Interior is completely clean, binding straight & strong, pages slightly off-white, but unfoxed & unmarked. The slipcase is Poor: torn along top front edges, many tears & stains to the paper covering, significant edgewear. Just included to protect book. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" image of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time) ship that same day; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Published by Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf (NY) for Limited Ed
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 4.5.
Published by The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf (Heritage Press)
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Complete 3 volume set. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Slipcase is in acceptable condition: Upper panel is split along two seams, heavy edgewear that exposes the boards, evidence of dampstaining; All three volumes in similar conditions: Covers show light edgewear; Binding is sound; Interior pages are clean and bright; "Andersen's Longer Stories" has a softened spine, but the binding is still strong; Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.4.
Published by Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, New York, 1948
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Color toned drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1224 pages; Circa [1948] Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf. Three volume set, all translated by Jean Hersholt and illustrated with color toned drawings by Fritz Kredel. Soundly bound in seperate color cloth with matching pictorial and lettere designs in red. Contents bright and clean with no marks. Cloth spine a little toned/sunned. Lacking slipcase but otherwise about VG. . Oversize book likely to require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
Published by The Heritage Press, 1948
HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. Reprint. 297pp; 445pp; 430pp. Octavos in decorative cloth, all edges yellow. Two-tone illustrations. Fading to spines, upper corners lightly bumped; spine of second book badly shaken; light dampstain to textblock fore-edges, pencil name on flyleaf of third book, else interiors unmarked. Lacking slipcase. Three-volume set: Andersen's Fairy Tales; Andersen's Short Tales; Andersen's Long Stories (with notes and appendix).
Published by The Heritage Illustrated Book shelf ( The Heritage Press), New York, 1948
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. 3 volume set, complete. In slipcase. A Very Good + set in Good + slipcase. 8vos, each volume approximately 450 pages. Each volume bound in, respectively, Yellow, Blue, or Green cloth , with designs and title in red on the spines and boards; housed in the publisher's red slipcase. All 3 volumes have lightly sunned spines, with very little additional wear. The slipcase is dinged in a few spots with rubbing. The three volumes are: 1. Andersen's Fairy Tales; 2. Shorter Tales 3. Longer Stories.
Published by The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf/The Heritage Press, New York, 1942
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fritz Kredel (illustrator). First Thus. First state yellow cloth with red designs of fairy tale characters on cover and endpapers, in the original yellow illustrated slipcase. The scarce Monthly Magazine of The Junior Heritage Club is laid in. Book and magazine are fine and unmarked; jacket has the usual bottom rubbing and light shelf dusting, and is still bright and solid. Uncommon in this fine condition.
Published by The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf [The Heritage Press], New York, 1948
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ condition. Kredel, Fritz (illustrated by) (illustrator). New York: The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf [The Heritage Press], 1948. 3 volumes complete: Andersen's Fairy Tales (xx, 297pp) / Andersen's Shorter Tales (xvi, 445pp). / Andersen's Longer Stories (xii, 430pp. + 52 pages of appendices). "Translated from the Danish by Jean Hersholt and Illustrated in Color by Fritz Kredel." Very Good+ condition. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT library discards. Pages are bright white, clean and unmarked. NO foxing. Introduction and Afterword by Jean Hersholt. This 3 volume set contains all 168 of Andersen's stories -- some never before translated into English, and a few never before published -- now freshly translated by Jean Hersholt. The final volume features an appendix containing: Three unpublished tales; a Listing of the Stories in Chronological Order; the Editor's Notes Upon the Stories; and an Index. The 3 volumes are uniformly bound in cloth but for the colors: Yellow, Blue and Green. All edges tinted yellow. Covers stamped in bright red. Decorated endpapers. Hardcover (heavy). Very Good+ condition/No dust jackets. Illus. by Kredel, Fritz (illustrated by). 3 volumes. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Published by Limited Editions Club, New York, 1942
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Kredel, Fritz (illustrator). Limited Edition. Two volumes, limited edition of 1500 this being number 370. Hardcovers in Very Good condition in a good slipcase, large 8vo, pages: Vol.I: 180; Vol.II: 399. Illustrated brown paper-covered boards, brown cloth shelf-back with titles in gold, top edges dyed brown, Volume I with frontis portrait, facsimile letters, and decorative chapter initials; Vol.II with hand-colored illustrations in text. Signed by the editor and illustrator on the limitations page. Light wear, slipcase with worn edges tape-reinforced. Bookseller accession no.: 16639. Extra postage will be required for these two volumes; contact bookseller. Signed by Author(s).
Published by The Limited Edition Club, New York, 1942
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good + slipcase. Fritz Kredel (illustrator). Limited edition. Limited to 1500 copies, his being #115. SIGNED by the author and the Illustrator on the colophon. A Very Good set, in Good + slipcase. The slipcase has a small scar on the side panel. The paste downs in both volumes are beginning to speckle, else a Near Fine set.
Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1942
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Very good +. First edition thus. Octavo. 2 vols. xiv, 180, (2); (6), 399, (3)pp. Brown cloth spines lettered in gilt, over pictorial light brown boards. Both volumes are housed in publisher's matching slipcase entitled, "Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen." Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Andersen in Vol. I, and numerous hand-colored text drawings by Fritz Kredel in Vol. II. Edition limited to 1500 numbered sets (this is #138), signed on the limitation leaf by both Jean Hersholt and Fritz Kredel. Spines a bit dulled & darkened and there is a faint shadow on the front free endpaper of Vol. I from an old newspaper clipping. Slipcase lightly dusted and rubbed, but sound. Contents: v. 1. Hans Christian Andersen, the maker of fairy tales / edited by Jean Hersholt and illustrated with drawings by Fritz Kredel -- v. 2. Fairy tales / by Hans Christian Andersen ; translated from the Danish by Jean Hersholt, with hand-colored illustrations by Fritz Kredel.
Published by The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, 1942
Seller: The Book Junction, Shippensburg, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: VG to VG-. Kredel, Fritz (illustrator). Limited Editions Club. 3 volume set in slipcase. Books: some rubbing & edgewear; fading/yellowing spines; some page yellowing; overall clean & tight set. Case has wear: rubbing, edgewear, bumped corners w/ chips/creases; scratches, yellowing, etc.
Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York 1942. 1292/1500 Limited Editions 0, 1942
Seller: Dial-A-Book, NARRABEEN, NSW, Australia
2 vol. 8vo. in slip case. Cloth spine to decorated boards. Near fine copies in good slipcase. Signed and numbered on the colophon page by both Hersholt and Kredel. The illustrations were made by Fritz Kredel, and coloured by hand from his drawings at the studio of Charlize Brakely under the artist's supervision. Volume 1 containing An Introduction, Denmark's Ugly Duckling by Jean Hersholt, A Series of Letters from Andersen to Horace Scudder (his American Editor), and the Thirteen Stories by Andersen which wer first printed in America, now re-translated by Jean Hersholt. Volume II containing the Favorite Fairy Tales by Andersen.
Published by The Heritage Press, New York, 1942
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 297 Pp. Red Cloth Spine Lettered In Gilt, Yellow Boards Illustrated In Red. Heritage Press Reprint Of The Signed Limited Editions Club Edition Of 1942. Wear, Fraying At Edges Of Boards, Hinges Cracked, Upper Tips Of Boards And All Pages With Small Bumps. Inscribed By Hersholt "To ---, I Spent Many Happy Hours Translating These Splendid Fairy Tales. I Am Sure You'll Enjoy H. C. Andersen's Deep Understanding Of Human Nature, Sometimes Too Deep For Mere Children. All My Best Wishes To You Jean Hersholt Hollywood March 1945". The Catalog Of The Jean Hersholt Collection Of Hans Christian Andersen Was Published By The Library Of Congress In 1954.
Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1942
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Fritz Kredel (illustrator). Original decorative paper covered boards w/ gilt title on brown cloth spines. Bindings very bright and clean. #288 of 1,500 copies. SIGNED BY JEAN HERSHOLT AND FRITZ KREDEL IN VOLUME TWO. Includes original salmon slipcase, which is lightly soiled w/ faint dampstains on one side. Vol. 1 illust. w/ a frontispiece of H. C. Andersen, and b/w drawings; Vol. 2 illust. w/ hand-colored illustrations. Contents very nice. Signed by Editor and Illustrat.
Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1949
Seller: The Old Sage Bookshop, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
Signed
Hard Cover with Slipcase. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Six hardcovers with blue cloth spines with silver lettering; boards covered in light and medium-blue patterned paper; limited edition 177/1500; signed by Kredel and Hersholt. Books in fine condition: spines slightly sunned; very very slight loss of color to some spine tips; otherwise like new. Slipcase in good condition with some wear and discoloration. Will require extra for shipping. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Signed by Illustrator(s). Book.