The Evergreen Tales; or, Tales For The Ageless Comprising: Aladdin & The Wonderful Lamp, Joseph and His Brothers, The Three Bears, Bluebeard, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Beauty and the Beast, Saint George and the Dragon, King Midas and the Golden Touch, Pandora's Box, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Ugly Duckling, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | 15 Volume Set Complete [Multiple Signed].
Jean Hersholt, Arthur Szyk, Hans Bendix, Rafaello Busoni, Edward Ardizzone, Fritz Eichenberg, Everett Gee Jackson, Fritz Kredel, Robert Lawson, Edy Legrand, William Moyers, Sylvain Sauvage, Henry Pitz, Edward Shenton, Ervine Metz, Malcolm Cameron. [Edited by Jean Hersholt].
(Book #ID 101470)
Published by Limited Editions Club 1949-1952, New York. 1949-1952.
First thus edition with these colour illustrations in publisher's original red paper over board slip cases with cream paper labels to the sides. 4to. 12½'' x 8¼''. 15 volumes in cloth, each fine with 12 in original glassine dust wrappers, housed in the five slip cases. Each volume illustrated by renown artists, namely Arthur Szyk, Hans Bendix, Fritz Kredel, Edy Legrand, William Moyers, Sylvain Sauvage, Edward Shenton, Malcolm Cameron and the following who have each SIGNED their contributions: Rafaello Busoni, Edward Ardizzone, Fritz Eichenberg, Everett Gee Jackson, Robert Lawson, Ervine Metz. Additionally Jean Hersholt has SIGNED 9 of them. Each volume published in quantities of either 2,000 or 2,500 copies. All volumes numbered either 138 or 214 or 248 or 1339 (but not a married set in the sense that they all went to the same original subscriber between 1949 and 1952). Fine condition books in Very Good and Fine condition glassine dust wrappers, probably never opened or read. 15 heavy volumes weighing 10 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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