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PRESENTATION COPY OF THE SECOND BOOK OF THE NEW FAIRY TALES. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Nye Eventyr - Andet Bind/ Forste Samling. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1847. image 1
PRESENTATION COPY OF THE SECOND BOOK OF THE NEW FAIRY TALES. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Nye Eventyr - Andet Bind/ Forste Samling. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1847. image 2
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PRESENTATION COPY OF THE SECOND BOOK OF THE NEW FAIRY TALES.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875.
Nye Eventyr - Andet Bind/ Forste Samling. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1847.

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PRESENTATION COPY OF THE SECOND BOOK OF THE NEW FAIRY TALES.

ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Nye Eventyr - Andet Bind/ Forste Samling. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1847.
12mo (174 x 106 mm). Later pink boards, blue endpapers, minor staining to leaves.

PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND SERIES OF THE SECOND CYCLE OF FAIRY TALES, inscribed "Fru Kjær / Tillader jeg mig, i venlig Foraars / Hilsen, at bringe denne lille / Bouquet af Eventyr / ærbødigt / H. C. Andersen." ["Mrs. Kjær / I permit myself, in kindly spring / greetings to bring this little / bouquet of Fairy tales / reverently / H. C. Andersen."]

This collection contains "The Shadow," "The Neighboring Families," "The Old Street Lamp," "The Darning Needle" and "Little Tuck." Andersen's "The Shadow" is considered one of the most personal of the fairy tales, about a learned man's shadow, who comes alive and slowly subjugates him, eventually killing him. Nielsen 516, 517-520.

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