IT'S PERFECTLY TRUE and Other Stories.
by Andersen, Hans Christian [Paul Leyssac, translator]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in green cloth (small indentation to spine), no dust jacket. /green cloth (small indentation to spine), no
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, (1938). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in green cloth (small indentation to spine), no dust jacket. . First US printing. "An entirely new translation of a number of Hans Christian Andersen's best stories, including many of the short amusing ones which are not as well known as they deserve to be" although this also includes some of his most loved stories - The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Princess on the Pea, The Snow Queen and more. Translated from the Danish by Paul Leyssac, with a foreword by Hugh Walpole and illustrations by Richard Bennett. Translator's note. x, 305 pp. Illustrated endpapers.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87067
- Title
- IT'S PERFECTLY TRUE and Other Stories.
- Author
- Andersen, Hans Christian [Paul Leyssac, translator]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in green cloth (small indentation to spine), no dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- green cloth (small indentation to spine), no
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1938)
- Keywords
- children's and illustrated, literature in translation, denmark,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mythology, legends, fairy tales and folktales;
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