Andersen's Fairy Tales Illustated By Arthur Szyk 1945From 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: 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.