Best Loved Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen [ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER OMNIBUS] 2012 • Fall River

Best Loved Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER OMNIBUS [1984] GRAMERCY BOOKS

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 

Dust jacket shows wear and a few nicked spots.  Book itself looks great and reads good as new w/ some faint discoloration to rear green boards.

Hans Christian Andersen: Best-Loved Fairy Tales collects 100 of Andersen's incomparable fairy tales and stories, among them "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Red Shoes", "The Wild Swans", and his fantasy masterpiece "The Snow-Queen".

Full of laughter, love, and longing, and ranging from the whimsical to the wistful, the stories in this volume are testaments to a master storyteller unrivaled in his talent to entertain and enlighten readers.

Hans Christian Andersen: Best-Loved Fairy Tales is abundantly illustrated with more than one hundred drawings by Dugald Stewart Walker and Hans Tegner, two of Andersen's best-known illustrators. Their artwork helps to illuminate stories that still stir emotions and warm hearts more than a century after they were written.