The Twelve Dancing Princesses

and Other Fairy Tales

retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

illustrated by Kay Nielsen 

First U.S. edition.  New York:  George H. Doran Company, [1923]  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Lavender cloth covers are mostly clean, with black ink text and illustration.  Boards show some wear, edgewear.  Corners are scuffed.  See photos. 
• Spine has black text and is sunned, with bumped ends.
• Binding is secure.  
• Decorated end papers/ pastedowns have a few pencil notes. 
• Frontispiece is present.
• Illustrations, full page color plates, are bright and clear.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, more so at margins, exhibits some smudges.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges are foxed.  See photos. 
• PS2024.0820

244 pages. 6 x 9 inches

A very good copy of this First US Edition (undated but circa 1923), a slightly abridged reissue of In Powder and Crinoline (Hodder & Stoughton, 1913).  A collection of fairy tales with sixteen stunning full page (not tipped in) color plates by Kay Nielsen (1886-1957) in Art Nouveau style.  This edition retains the details found in the earlier volume, including the ornamental text framing on every page.  Most important, Kay Nielsen's highly stylized princes and princesses are present in all their brilliant detail. 

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) was an English critic, writer, and compiler of anthologies.  Among these were three collections of fairy tales, the third of which is this volume.  Six Fairy Tales make up the collection:

Minon-Minette
Felicia or The Pot of Pinks
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Rosanie or The Inconstant Prince
The Man Who Never Laughed
John and the Ghosts.

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