5/19/2023 0 Comments Hans christian andersen stories![]() ![]() Take the English-speaking world, for instance. ![]() For almost a hundred years now, generation after generation has been brought up on Andersen's stories. And little did the critics, nearly all of whom advised him to give up his "experiment" and devote himself to his other writings, ever dream that they would live to see him gain world acclaim for these tales. Little did he know in the spring of 1835, when he all but had to beg his publisher to accept these remarkable tales, that one day they would make him immortal. "With the passing of each year, Andersen's genious brought forth new "wonder stories", and the fame he had so desperately craved and striven for became a reality. As with most of the other few existing copies, the present set is a mixture of issues (though here, merely two of the parts are in second issue). This legendary fairy tale-collection that created the fairy tale-genre and brought Andersen international fame, consists in six parts that together make up two volumes. ![]() A magnificent set - unusually nice and clean and bound together in a contemporary binding, which is almost never the case - of the first edition of this exceedingly rare collection of Andersen's earliest fairy tales. Internally a bit of scattered brownspotting, but overall unusually nice, clean, and fresh. Bound in one nice contemporary half calf binding with blindstamped and gilt ornamentation to spine. ![]()
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