Stories Andersen, Signed (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is the SOFTCOVER edition. With full page, hugely detailed illustrations in b/w by the author cartoonist. Clean, bright & newlooking. Signed by the editor, Malcolm Whyte, with brief inscription. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Carle, Eric (illustrator). First Printing - Signed by Eric Carle on title page. Tight, bright, whistle clean copy. No jacket as issued -- $5.95 price printed on cover.

Edmund Dulac (illustrator). DESCRIPTION: Large quarto 4to. 31 x 24.5 cm (12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches). Limited edition (Edition De Luxe), no. 9 of 750 copies. Original full vellum binding over stiff boards, elaborate gilt decorations to covers and spine. Ribbon ties, decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac with 28 tipped-in color plates and captioned tissue guards. Pages with decorative borders printed in pale green. Signed by Dulac in the colophon. Protected with an archival, clear Grafix Dura Lar dust wrapper. _____CONDITION: Vellum binding exceptionally clean, gilt decorations and titling sharp throughout. Light bumps to spine ends, light offset to the free endpapers, slight adhesion damage to page 181 and edge of the plate facing p. 181 (see photos). Mild crack to hinge at p. 185 (see photo) but text block firm and square and all external and internal hinges intact. Overall, very good to near fine.______DISCUSSION: This is one of the most famous of the books from the Golden Age of Illustration representing some of Edmund Dulac's finest work as a book illustrator, so much so that it sold out almost immediately. This edition includes some favorite stories and illustrations including: The Emperor's New Clothes, The Mermaid, The Snow Queen, The Nightingale, etc. An attractive copy._____NOTE: This is a large heavy book. Shipping cost using USPS International Priority EXPRESS Mail with tracking to most locations in the United Kingdom and Europe is $60 U.S. dollars. Shipping to more distant regions may require additional cost.

Condition: Good. Micro-Miniature Book. 64mo. 35 pp. Green Cloth with Gilt Printed Paper Labels. Fine. Printed by hand on 100% Rag Paper. Hand-colored illustrations. One of 300, Signed by Jane Bernier. (Bradbury, p. 34).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Richard Bennett (illustrator). N. Y.: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1968. 67 pages. Dust jacket has some edge wear some small chips and radiating creases. Looks great in new plastic cover. No former owner's name. Text is clean, unmarked, in lovely condition. By Author. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Richard Bennett.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1101pp including index. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine in very slightly faded unclipped dustwrapper which is lightly creased and bumped at extremities. Otherwise a very nice copy indeed of this excellent translation. Signed by Author(s).

First Dulac edition, deluxe issue, no. 383 of 750 copies, numbered and signed by Dulac. Large 4to. In the publisher's full white vellum binding, with vignettes and titles embossed in gilt. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Silk ties lacking. A near fine copy, mainly bright and clean, with just a small mark to upper cover. Pictorial endpapers with peacock design. Twenty eight mounted colour plates, all perfect and beautiful, the frontispiece is Dulac's famous illustration for the Princess and the Pea. The frontis has a tissue guard and all the other plates have captions on solid pages. Each text page has a decorative border in olive green. The deluxe edition of this beautiful book, priced at £5 5/-, sold out almost immediately on publication. The book is advertised by the publishers as "from end to end a delight" and contemporary reviewers concurred. Stories include some of the most popular fairy tales of all time; The Snow Queen, The Real Princess, The Little Mermaid and The Emperor's New Clothes.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited edition. 4to. viii, 250, (2) pp. Full vellum blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board; top edge gilt, ribbon ties, pictorial endpapers. Boards yawning a bit, else a fine copy. With two notices of an exhibition of Dulac original watercolors dated 1911 and 1915 laid-in. One of 750 numbered copies signed by Dulac. This is number 214. .

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dulac, Edmund (illustrator). Limited. 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. Signed by Artist.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 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. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Vellum. Condition: fine. Limited ed. 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.

Full Vellum. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Dulac, Edmund (illustrator). First Edition. 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. Signed by Artist. Limited De Luxe Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 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. Signed by Author(s).

KREIDEL, Fritz. (illustrator). ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. The Complete Andersen: All of the 168 Stories by .(Some Never Before Translated into English, and a Few Never Before Published) Now Freshly Translated Into English for This New Edition by Jean Hersholt. With an Appendix Containing the Unpublished Tales, a Chronological Listing, an Index, and the Notes, and With Hand-Colored Illustrations by Fritz Kredel. 6 Vols. Tall 4tos. Orig. cloth-backed decorated boards. New York: The Limited Editions Club, [1949]. Limited to 1,500 copies, signed by the illustrator and the translator. The composition of the text was done at the Stratford Press. Lacks slipcase, else a fine set. Signed.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the artist on the title page, "To Madame Alfred du Cros, with all best wishes from Edmund Dulac, 1911", together with a fine ink drawing of the head of the emperor from "The Nightingale". The likely recipient is Louise du Cros (1865-1927), the American wife of Jacques Alfred du Cros (1868-1946). He was a director of the Dunlop Rubber Company. In 1911 they lived in the Kensington area of London. Louise Pemberton married Edgar Hincks in 1885, and she married again in 1901. She is known to have corresponded with the family of Mark Twain. 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 27b. Quarto. Frontispiece and 27 mounted colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Advertisement leaf for Leicester Galleries exhibition loosely inserted. Original olive-green cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, decorative endpapers. Extremities a little rubbed, spine slightly sunned, a few minor marks to covers, browning to free endpapers, front hinge split but firm: a very good copy.

Signed limited edition, number 248 of 750 copies signed by the artist. One of the most sumptuously illustrated editions of Hans Andersen. This copy includes the advertisement for the exhibition of original watercolours loosely inserted. 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. Frontispiece and 27 mounted colour plates by Edmund Dulac. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Binding toned and slightly bowed, lacking ties, light soiling to top edge, light browning to free endpapers, occasional foxing and light browning; a very good copy with bright uncreased plates.

Condition: Fine. First thus. Edition Deluxe, no. 20 of 100 numbered copies printed on Japanese Vellum and signed by the artist. A fine 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. During his lifetime, Hans Christian Andersen, whose fairy tales have 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. A stunning copy, unique, and arguably the finest copy of the Deluxe 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. Hughey, who had only seen two copies of the Edition De Luxe, William Randolph Hearst's and another viewed at a Washington book fair, suggested that this copy 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 endpapers here were available at the time of the trade edition, and it is possible that someone or the firm did this for copy #20. Hughey also said that this "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." This copy is better for the personalization. French-born anglophile Edmond Dulac (1882-1953) was one of the most prized artists of the "golden age" of book illustration. A gifted artist, especially in the medium of watercolor, Dulac's ability to render luxurious detail and subtle emotions is otherworldly. He is best known for his illustrations for books and magazines, although he also designed for the stage and wrote music; in moments of financial insecurity he produced serialized cartoons and became an authority on postage stamp design (White). Hughey 27. Fine. Signed.