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Andersen, Hans Christian Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales London Adam And Charles Black 1947 Original Cloth Good with no dust jacket; Vii, 373 pages + color frontis + 3 color plates + 42 b&w illustrations. Blue cloth covers with yellow lettering on spine and front board. Reprint of 1924 edition. 35 stories. Dampstains to front cover and spine. Covers faded. Internally very . No signatures. Illustrated by Carse, A. Duncan 12mo Price: 27.20 NZD
Andersen, Hans Christian The Ugly Duckling West Drayon, Middlesex Porpoise Books First Edition Papered Boards Fair with no dust jacket; No date [1948]. 47, [1] pages. Illustrated papered boards. Dimensions: 8.5" high by 7" wide. Spine chipped and taped with brown paper adhesive tape. Gutters intact at endpapers. Owner's inscription. Some soiling and staining to some leaves. Some staining to rear board. 3.5" diagonal crease to corner of front free endpaper and first two leaves. These Porpoise books are alleged to have been remaindered to New Zealand after the series received poor sales in the UK. The short-lived series has since become one of the more sought after imprints from Penguin publishers. [for more information, see the article "The Mystery of the Drowning Porpoises: by Steve Hare in "Fine Books & Collections" magaine, Vol. 2 No. 6 (Nov/Dec 2004) ]. Illustrated by Nickless, Will 8vo Price: 128.00 NZD
