IT'S PERFECTLY TRUE and Other Stories. de Andersen, Hans Christian [Paul Leyssac, translator] - (1938)

Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, New York, NY, 1938. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Bennet, Richard . a new translation by Paul Leyssac with a foreward by Hugh Walpole. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Illustrator: Bennet, Richard . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 - 2 pounds. Category: Children; Juvenile Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 34420. .

Macmillan & Co, 1937. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1937. No edition stated. 338 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Book has been rebound. Translated by Paul Leyssac. Illustrated by Vilhelm Pedersen. With illustrated frontispiece. Text block edges are decoratively speckled. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. A few dog-eared corners. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Spine is noticeably sunned. A few small ink spots to rear. Dust-marked to front. Gilt is bright. Book has a moderate forward lean.

NY:: Harcourt, Brace & World,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. Translated from the Danish by Paul Leyssac. A later printing. Brief gift inscription on front endpage, else very good in a very good (one small chip on rear panel, age toning), price clipped dust jacket. .

Harcourt Brace and Company, 1938. Hardcover. Good. Richard Bennett. Nice copy, heavy and clean. Wear to corners of tight Santa Paula Library binding. there is browning throughout, and the illustrations are amazing.

Macmillan, 1937. Hardcover. Good. 1937. 337 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1943. First Edition in this Format; Later Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good- dust jacket. Chips to jacket edges, mostly at and near spine. A few short tears to jacket edges. Toning. Corners of jacket flaps are clipped, however jacket is not price clipped. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white, illustrated end papers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1938. First printing. Translated from the Danish by Paul Leyssac. With a Foreword by Hugh Walpole. Inscribed by the translator to previous owner on the second free endpaper. 305 pp. including illustrations. A fine, otherwise unmarked copy in a square, tight binding, with a bit of spotting to the fore edge. The dust jacket is darkened, and stained in spots. Although the top corner of the front flap is clipped, the price, $2.50, is still present. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.. Signed by Translator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Richard Bennett. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Good+. (1938). Hardcover. Translated from the Danish by Paul Leyssac; Illustrated by Richard Bennett. Signed by the Translator on front endpaper. 305pp., green pictorial cloth. Covers are slightly scuffed and soiled, hinges cracked. Contents are bright and complete. A Good+ copy. .

London: Macmillan. 1937. Octavo, original red cloth boards with gilt illustration upper board, top edge gilt, b&w frontis portrait plate, b&w text illus, pp xvi, 338. Edges lightly rubbed, occasional light foxing, very good condition. Collection of Andresen's classic fairy tales, first thus. With a Translator's Note, and a foreword by Hugh Walpole praising Leyssac's new translaton. 1st thus. Cloth Boards.

LONDON : MACMILLAN AND CO , 1937 Crimson Cloth Boards with gilt blocked title and gilt blocked illustration to upper board, 215 x 150 mm approx.Top edge gilt, xvi + 338 pp + 2 of publisher's adverts. Contains the illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen done for the original illustrated edition published in Denmark. Fore Word by Hugh Walpole. First edition 1937. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book - mild general shelf wear to cloth - colour rubbing only, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- loss to head and tail of spine of up to 15 mm in depth, mild tanning and shelf soiling, non price clipped - cover 7s6d. In a removable proprietary protective sleeve to which pieces of manila paper have been inserted where loss to mask the stark white of the backing paper so as not to offend the eye on the bookshelf. No other defects to book or jacket).