It's Perfectly True and Other Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Translated from the DAnish by Paul Leyssac
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. Richard BENNETT. Dust jacket title: It’s Perfectly True and Other Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, A New Translation, with a Foreword by Hugh Walpole
Richard BENNETT, illustrator. Later printing. Small 4to; x, 305pp; mint green buckram over the board, black lettering on front and spine, small vignette of birds and a cage on front; color pictorial endpapers; untrimmed foreedge; 29 illustrated plates, small illustrations in text; light rub to bottom edges; clipped decorated dust jacket, light spots and chips to edges; near fine in very good dj. Item #1986
Twenty-eight favorite tales from Hans Christian Andersen with beautiful wood engraved illustrations by Richard Bennett (1899-1979). The collection includes The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Little Match-Girl, The Princess on the Pea, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Snow Queen, Thumbelina, and others.
Price: $75.00