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Lot 62

PRESENTATION COPY FOR EDGAR COLLIN.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875.
Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Raekke. Copenhagen: Reitzels, 1861.

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PRESENTATION COPY FOR EDGAR COLLIN.

ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Raekke. Copenhagen: Reitzels, 1861. 8vo (180 x 138 mm). Publisher's wrappers, chipped, some soiling, rear cover nearly detached.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO EDGAR COLLIN, "Min kjaerne Edgard Collin, venskabeligst, H.C. Andersen." Edgar Collin (1836-1906) was the son of Edvard Collin (1808-1886), Andersen's closest friend early in his life and the inspiration for "The Little Mermaid," written just on the heels of Collin's engagement to his wife. Edvard himself was also the son of Andersen's greatest patron Jonas Collin (1776-1861). In Andersen's original version of "The Little Mermaid," the mermaid, spurned by her human prince, alone and unloved dissolves into seafoam. In this telling, Andersen is the mermaid, and Edvard his prince. Remarkably, Andersen remained intimate with the Collin family throughout his life, and in the 1850s travelled extensively with Edvard's sons Edgar and Jonas.

FIRST EDITION, AND FIRST APPEARANCE OF "THE SNOWMAN," of the first book in the second series of Andersen's third cycle of fairy tales, containing the first appearance of 6 tales, including importantly his classic, "The Snowman" ("Sneemanden"). Nielsen 817, 818-823.

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