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Lot 54
Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023
7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$1,260
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Lot Description
[Children's & Illustrated] [Nielsen, Kay] Grimm, (Jacob and Wilhelm) Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1925). First and limited edition, #321/600 numbered copies, signed by Nielsen. 4to. (xii), (276) pp., (2) pp. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and 11 color plates, all mounted and with captioned tissue guards, and 10 black and white plates. Publisher's quarter orange cloth over red marbled paper-covered boards; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; illustrated endpapers, small hole in bottom of front free endpaper, where once stuck to front paste-down, paper residue on same; front hinge split but sound; in black cloth-covered slip case.
A handsome copy.