[Rarebooks] FS: Hans Christian Andersen's FAIRY TALES Illustrated by Fritz Kredel

[Charles Agvent]

ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. FAIRY TALES and HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: THE 
MAKER OF FAIRY TALES. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942. Two octavo 
volumes (6" x 9-1/4") bound in rose buckram and boards decorated with 
designs by Fritz Kredel. Translated, edited, and with an introduction by 
Jean Hersholt with a series of letters from Andersen to Horace Scudder 
hitherto unpublished. Illustrated with drawings by Fritz Kredel colored 
by hand by Charlize Brakeley. Copy #1205 of 1500 SIGNED by the 
illustrator and by the translator on the colophon page. Tasteful 
bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume. About Fine in a Near 
Fine slipcase. (#014957)        $125.00

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