Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Hans Andersen, Mrs H.B. Paull trans.
New translation. 383 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Original colour and black and white illustrations, some as plates, some within text. Colour frontispiece. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Frontispiece and half-title page detaching. Plate opposite page 69 already detached. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt is slightly dulled. Some additional mild marks and staining.