[Rarebooks] FS: Complete Tales of the Brothers Grimm with 48 full-page color plates

[Charles Agvent]

GRIMM, Jacob & Wilhelm. THE COMPLETE HOUSEHOLD TALES OF JAKOB AND 
WILHELM GRIMM IN FOUR VOLUMES [GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES]. New York: Limited 
Editions Club, 1962. Four quarto (7" x 10") volumes bound in matching 
woven linen with a floral pattern printed in leaf-green ink; total of 
1078 pages with each volume housed in its own slipcase. Selected, 
edited, and with an introduction by Louis and Bryna Untermeyer with 
Andrew Lang's definitive essay on the origin of the tales. Illustrated 
with 48 full-page watercolors by Lucille Corcos printed by color 
lithography. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator 
on the colophon page of the last volume. Monthly Letter laid in. 
Bookplate on front pastedown of first volume; short paper split to front 
hinge of final volume, cover tight; mild sunning to the spines. Near 
Fine in Fine slipcases. (#016808)        $200.00

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