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[CLARKE, Harry]. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Harry Clarke. NY: Brentanos [1916]. 4to, 320pp. Gray cloth pictorially stamped in black with pictorial label affixed to front. 16 color plates and numerous b&w illustrations. Upper corners bumped, bumping at head and foot of both boards, spine lightly sunned, gilt at top edge a tad rubbed, else an internally clean, tight copy.
First US edition being printed at The Complete Press. This collection of some of the most well known fairy tales by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen is wonderfully captured in the Art Nouveaux style of Irish illustrator Harry Clarke. The gorgeous color plates and wonderful line drawings capture the wonder and majesty of these tales.