Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustated By Arthur and 12 similar items

Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustated By Arthur Szyk 1945 From copyright page: The Special Contents of this Edition are Copyright MCMXLV (1945) by Grosset Dunlap. Composition, Electrotyping, Printing Binding by Kingsport Press, Tennessee in the United States of America. Dark green buckram (cloth) boards, gilt spine titles, border, moderate shelf wear. Mounted color plate w/gilt borders at front cover of regaled Chinese Emperor w/nightingale. Pages very good, clean; name inside cover: "L. Brunkhorst". Ornately detailed color montage at endpapers of characters from tales. Bind good; hinges intact. Profusely illustrated throughout w/many color plates and the similar monochromatic designs of the intriguing artist Arthur Szyk. Tales include: The Garden of Paradise Little Tiny The Fir Tree The Storks Little Ida's Flowers The Red Shoes The Ugly Duckling The Girl Who Trod on a Roof The Bottle Neck; The Snow Queen The Marsh King's Daughter The Wild Swans; Great Claus and Little Claus The Shepherdess and the Sweep The Bell; The Angel The Nightingale Holger the Dane The Emperor's New Clothes The Steadfast Tin Soldier The Little Match Girl The Swineherd Elder-Tree Mother; Hans Clodhopper The Princess and the Pea What the Good Man Does Is Always Right The Roses and the Sparrows The Old Street Lamp The Tinder Box 343 pages Size: 7 - 9" Tall.