[Rarebooks] OFFER: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON.

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1.	ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN: Front Wrap: THE UGLY DUCKLING, AND, STORY OF A 
MOTHER.. Illustrated in Oil Colors. Price, 13 Cents. Newsboys' Edition. 
Ross & Tousey, Agents. TITLE PAGE: TALES AND STORIES; FROM THE GERMAN OF 
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN OIL COLORS. Boston: Charles 
H. Brainard. New York:Dinsmore & Co. 1859. 12mo,  16 Pp., Lithographed 
wraps. 2  two color Frontispieces one of the Ugly Duckling and the other of 
the Story of a Mother. These were printed, on one side of the page,  only, 
by Andrew Holland, woodcut and oil printed, 30 Hawley St., Boston. The 
front wrap, printed in green with a pictorial surround including a possible 
fairy queen wearing a crown and with wings, a flower swag surround and a 
group of young girls playing with further flower ropes at the bottom. The 
verso of the rear wrapper contains a pictorial ad, printed in green for 
"Ladd, Webster & Co. Tight-Stitch Sewing Machines, Boston, New York, 
Philadelphia and Elsewhere. This may be the Second appearance of the Ugly 
Duckling in the USA. It is, however, not quite a separate publication, 
being accompanied by one other tale. It is a very rare little booklet, 
however. No other copy is recorded in OCLC, MWA, Rosenbach, CLU, 
SWM[deGrummond]. Fine to Mint. $500.00

2.	[ANDERSON, H. C. (HANS CHRISTIAN)],   "THE HISTORY OF THE UGLY LITTLE 
DUCK  OR THE BEAUTIFUL SWAN. / ILLUSTRATED WITH SIX DRAWINGS BY HARRISON 
WEIR"   [New York] : John McLoughlin (Successor to Elton & Co.,) Publisher, 
New    York., Stereotyped by Vincent Dill, Jr. 21 & 23 Ann Street, New 
York. [Ca.-1853] Note, only the printed, pictorial  [and hand colored, as 
issued] yellow covers mention the McLoughlin name. The title page has Elton 
as publisher with a decorative wood engraved  logo. The second issue of the 
First American Edition of Anderson's "The Ugly Duckling".  Otherwise a very 
nice copy of a rarity. I have never seen another copy of either issue of 
this classic juvenile for sale. While the Cundall, English first is rare, I 
have seen it more than once, and had it last year. The entire book is as 
Elton published it a year earlier, including the title page,  but with the 
name of the publisher on the cover changed. See the AAS entry, which has 
our edition but not the Elton. RLIn notes one Loc [Clements at UMI]. For 
the Elton, none for this.  Our copy with a 1/2 inch split at the spine, a 
little staining on the cover and first few pages very lightly with no tide 
mark] About Very Good. $850.00

3.	ANDERSON, H. C. (HANS CHRISTIAN):  FAIRY TALES BY HANS CHRISTIAN 
ANDERSON. Illustrated by 10 large designs in colour after original drawings 
by E.V.B. Newly translated by H.L.D.[Harry Leigh Douglas] Ward and Augusta 
Plesner ...  New York, Scribner & Welford, ND,1880[?].  vi, 76 Pp. col. 
ill. 32 cm.  Half-title. E.V. B. is the HONORABLE ELEANOR VERE 
BOYLE.[GORDON]. Besides being an excellent translation, this edition 
features the lovely illustrations which are Pre-Raphaelite in quality 
of  the Hon. Eleanor Vere Boyle, wife of the Reverend Richard Boyle lived 
in the Maidenhead area and exhibited figure subjects at the Grosvenor 
Gallery and elsewhere from 1878-81. She Illustrateded  many children's 
books using the initials EVB. Most of them were printed in color by chromo- 
lithography, as here,  by Emrik & Singer, Chromolith. East London. See 
Dictionary of Victorian Painters.  Original glazed, pictorial boards, 
showing another design not repeated within, corners worn, inner rear hinge 
repaired. Inscribed on the Fr. Fr. EP "Miss Lizzie Mullan Christmas 1885" 
in a large round hand. ]. Both the English and this American issue are 
rare. Unnoted by OCLC,  Melvyl, CIC, H, Y, KVK, NYPL, BL,  COPAC, Opie, 
Osborne[the last four lacking the English Edition]. About Very Good. $350.00

4.	ANDERSON, H. C. (HANS CHRISTIAN):  BONER, CHARLES: TALES FROM 
DENMARK.  London: Joseph Cundall, 1847. vii, [171], 174 Pp. : ill. ; 18 cm. 
Translated by Charles Boner with fifty illustrations by the Count Pocci. 
First English Edition, thus. Pocci was the greatest Romantic German 
illustrator of children's books. Cundall, of course was the first publisher 
of childrens' books to purposefully try to make them beautiful by hiring 
known English artists as illustrators. He also tried to use texts of 
distinction, either contemporary works of real imagination, or reprints of 
classic tales and ballads rewritten for children.  Unnoted at COPAC, OCLC, 
4 Locs in the USA,  [ALM, AZS, FUG, WAU] 1 in the UK [AVA]. Not in Mclean. 
Original full green Mro., double ruled gilt lines enclosing the boards, 
within a triple range of gilt lines one with massed fleurons and cyma 
curves. Complex gilt spine, divided into 6 boxes, five filled with 
ornament, the six the title, gilt doublures, marbled EPs. All full-page 
plates printed in light tan tint and dark brown lines, with numerous 
vignettes in black and white among the text. Binding worn at all 
extremities and with bumped corners. Faint tide marks in some blank borders 
to the plates. One page slightly soiled, OW VG. $400.00

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