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Das Tapfere Schneiderlein; mit farbigen Bildern von Fritz Kredel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Potsdam, Germany: Rütten & Loening Verlag, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good +/good +. Kredel, Fritz. 27, [3] p.: color illustrations; 22 cm. White paper over boards with black cover title and color illustration on front cover within decorative border; back cover blank. Dust jacket reproduces front cover; back section has publisher's advertisement for a new edition of Heinrich Hoffmann's Der Struwwelpeter. Publisher's advertisements on both jacket flaps. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Das Tapfere Schneiderlein, or The Valiant Little Tailor, is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. Versions of it have appeared in Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book and other English-language collections of fairy tales. The illustrator, Fritz Kredel (1900-1973), was a German artist who fled Germany in 1938, before this book was published. After coming to the United States, he taught at Cooper Union and continued to illustrate books, with both German and English texts, including a six volume set of Hans Christian Andersen for the Limited Editions Club. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: minor soiling along fore-edge of several pages; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: soiled; ends of spine chipped; 1-cm. tear from upper edge of front section; complete.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004214
- Title
- Das Tapfere Schneiderlein; mit farbigen Bildern von Fritz Kredel
- Illustrator
- Kredel, Fritz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rütten & Loening Verlag
- Place of Publication
- Potsdam, Germany
- Date Published
- 1939
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
We have a large stock, focusing primarily, but by no means exclusively, on 16th- to mid-19th-century books in English, French, and German in the fields of history, travel, and the arts, and children's books; late 19th- and early 20th-century military prints and postcards; and manuscripts, deeds, maps, and printed ephemera of all periods and disciplines.
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