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THE FAIRY TALES OF GRIMM & ANDERSEN
Written by Brothers Grimm; Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1329572
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Very good condition.

Very large heavy format. 11.25 x 9". Brown textured covers with gilt titles and vignettes. 8 + 4 colour plates. Numerous b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, cover edges slightly dusty, small worn patch to front edge of spine. Half title-page has a 2" tear to inner margin. Joint between half title and frontis is cracked showing webbing beneath. There is foxing throughout, particularly heavy to prelims. Two leaves have large tears to them with old sellotape marks, magic tape has been placed on the rear of the tears.

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TALES FROM GRIMM
Written by Brothers Grimm; Wanda Gag. Illustrated by Wanda Gag.
Stock no. 1325910
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1943. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The translator (Gag) has included old favourites, less well-known and also several of the best tales hardly known or available in adequate English translations. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 247 pages. B/w text illustrations. Spine bumped. Some light spotting to covers. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers lightly browned and spotted. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge chipped and slightly grubby with felt-tip pen marks to rtitles on rear panel.

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FAVORITE TALES FROM GRIMM
Written by Brothers Grimm; Nancy Garden. Illustrated by Mercer Mayer.
Stock no. 1325901
Published by Four Winds Press. 1st 1982. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Brown cloth spine with gilt title, beige boards. Orange endpapers. 224 pages. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0590077910. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Contents fine. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn and torn with some loss, small red mark to top edge of front panel.

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HOUSEHOLD TALES BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Written by Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1823898
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1946. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Based chiefly on the Bohn collection of 1884 for which Andrew Lang wrote the introduction, but a few stories from other versions included. 56 b/w illustrations & 5 coloured plates including double-spread title page. Yellow cloth boards, blue titles. 303 pages. Text block browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and edge-rubbed, spine heavily faded and also rear panel at spine edge, a few edge-chips and scuffing.

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THE ANNE ANDERSON PICTURE BOOK
Written by Hans Christian Andersen; Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 2134634
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Almost very good condition.

Orange/brown cloth spine. Large format. Pictorial boards. Numerous coloured and b/w illustrations by Anne Anderson, illustrating Hans Andersen and Grimms' Fairy Tales. Spine is faded. Bumping/some scuffing/wear to cover edges and a couple of corners. Surface paper damage to edge of rear cover. Page edge browning, but contents are still very good.

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GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES
Written by Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Elenore Plaisted Abbott.
Stock no. 1318757
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons. 1941. Good condition.

Black cloth, large pictorial onlay to front. Cream decorated endpapers. 9 colour plates. 308 pages. 9.5 x 7". Spine and corners bumped and worn. Dent to top edge of rear cover. Title to spine has faded. Rear cover is grugbby. There is loss to the corners of the pictorial onlay. Rear joint is cracked. Some light grubby fingermarks at page margins else contents clean.

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HOUSEHOLD TALES BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Written by Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 2131660
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1946. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Yellow cloth. Colour title-page which is double spread. Numerous b/w illustrations. Browning to top and tail of spine. Bumping to corners. Grubby marks to endpapers, outer page edges and a few page margins. Wrapper is faded to a couple of edges; torn with some loss; scuffed.

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THE GOLDEN BIRD
Written by Brothers Grimm; Neil Philip. Illustrated by Isabelle Brent.
Stock no. 2130702
Published by Little, Brown and Company. 1st USA 1995. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The youngest son's quest for the golden bird, the golden horse and the princess from the golden castle. Retold from the Brothers Grimm by Neil Philip. Colour illustrations. Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. ISBN: 0316705225.

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THE WISHING TABLE
Written by Brothers Grimm; Joan Cherry. Illustrated by Erhard Amadeus-Dier.
Stock no. 2126618
Published by Polytint Limited. Circa 1954. Almost very good condition.

The Polytint Fairy Tales, No 1. Dark pink cloth spine, pictorial boards. Pink and white striped endpapers. Lovely colour illustrations. Unpaginated. 10.5 x 7.5". Bumping and creasing to corners and spine. A little fraying to cloth. Front joint is partially cracked. Some page browning, light foxing.

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THE ANNE ANDERSON PICTURE BOOK
Written by Hans Christian Andersen; Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1814807
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Good condition.

Orange/brown cloth spine. Large format. Pictorial boards. Numerous coloured and b/w illustrations by Anne Anderson, illustrating Hans Andersen and Grimms' Fairy Tales. Boards scuffed and edge-worn. 'Angela' written in pencil to rear board. Front hinge starting to split (between frontis and title page. Most top margin corners have loss or surface paper damage... perhaps the book had been exposed to damp which caused the top corners to stick together and they have then been prised apart? Clear tape repair to first page of Hansel and Grethel.

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KING GRISLY-BEARD
Written by Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1507591
Published by The Bodley Head. 1991. Very good condition.

A Tale From the Brothers Grimm, translated by Edgar Taylor. Green pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 037002026X. Fading to spine and some cover edges.

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SIX AGAINST THE WORLD
Written by Brothers Grimm; Marcus Crouch. Illustrated by William Stobbs.
Stock no. 2121886
Published by Pelham Books. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Stories from the nursery and household tales of the Brothers Grimm in new versions by Crouch. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0720711088. Page edge browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few nicks to corners; unevenly faded along edges.

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