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THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED PHOTO OF ANDERSEN. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Eventyr, fortalte For Børn. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, [1842-]1846. image 1
THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED PHOTO OF ANDERSEN. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Eventyr, fortalte For Børn. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, [1842-]1846. image 2
THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED PHOTO OF ANDERSEN. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Eventyr, fortalte For Børn. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, [1842-]1846. image 3
THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED PHOTO OF ANDERSEN. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Eventyr, fortalte For Børn. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, [1842-]1846. image 4
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THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED PHOTO OF ANDERSEN.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875.
Eventyr, fortalte For Børn. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, [1842-]1846.

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THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED PHOTO OF ANDERSEN.

ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Eventyr, fortalte For Børn. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, [1842-]1846.
First series, comprising 3 pamphlets in one volume. 8vo (123 x79 mm). General title page dated 1846 and general index; half-titles and title pages for parts II and III (without half-title and section title for part I); indices for each of the three parts. Contemporary cloth, spine gilt-lettered, some rubbing and wear, spotting to a few leaves. CARTE DE VISITE OF ANDERSEN SIGNED BY HIM TIPPED IN.
Provenance: Wilhelmine Kier (signature and initials in gilt on spine).

THE RARE SECOND PRINTING OF THE FIRST SERIES OF ANDERSEN'S FIRST FAIRY TALE CYCLE WITH A SIGNED PHOTO OF HIM AS FRONTISPIECE. Hersholt reports that not more than 750 copies of this rare second printing were published, calling them "almost as scarce" as the first. According to Hersholt, "the second printing of the six pamphlets in their entirety (1842-1847) is exceedingly scarce and difficult to obtain.... The second printing of the pamphlets is almost identical with the first" (p 25-26). "The tales of Hans Christian Andersen are unique ... Andersen's stories signalized a new and fundamentally different approach to the writing of books for children" (PMM 299). WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH TIPPED IN, signed by Andersen in upper margin (signature faded), a fulllength seated portrait by Rudolph Stiegler, 1861. The portrait shows Andersen in profile, leaning on a table, wearing a topcoat and holding a book in his lap. Hersholt, pp 24-27; Nielsen 266, 267-270, 276, 277-279, 303, 304-305.

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