Jan Moer (2 results)

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. - Text in Dutch - Illustrated boards a little tanned and marked w/ spine toned - Cover edges rubbed - Numerous chips w/ boards exposed a joints, spine ends, edges and corners - Edges rubbed w/ corners bumped - Lettering and gilt decoration faded - Edges of text block tanned w/ top edge most affected - Content foxed and tanned - Contemporary previous owner name and date in ink to top corner of front free endpaper w/ smudge opposite - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight 172 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Edmund Dulac (illustrator). A smart third edition of this illustrated collection of fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen, retold by Jan Van Der Moer in Dutch. Dutch. Third edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eight colour plates. Collated complete. A charming collection of the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author, prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, best remembered for his literary fairy tales. With titles including: The Princess and the Pea, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Snow Queen, Paradise Garden, and The Nightingale. Retold by Jan Van Der Moer, a Dutch author. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac, a French-British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Previously held in the library of Nicolas McDowall, a British artist who owned a private press, established with his wife, called the Old Stile Press. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and minor chipping. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Light sunning to the board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small handling mark. Light spotting and age toning to the endpapers with the previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Very Good. book.