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Lot 55
Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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$1,000 -
1,500
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$945
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Lot Description
[Children's & Illustrated] [Nielsen, Kay] Couch, Arthur Quiller- (editor) In Powder & Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1913). First and limited edition, #99/500 numbered copies, signed by Nielsen. 4to. xii, (164) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 24 color plates, all mounted and with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's deluxe full green vellum, elaborately decorated in gilt, boards very lightly rubbed, slightly bowed, and with a few light scratches; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, fore-edge lightly foxed; illustrated endpapers, foxed; very light scattered foxing to text; green silk ties likely replaced; in green cloth slip case;
A charming collection of Nielsen illustrations published early in his career.