Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Harry Clarke. London: George Harrap, 1930. Pp 319. Green cloth boards lettered & illustrated in black, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with partial loss to lower margin, otherwise a nice bright copy.

Illustrated with 40 plates in both coloured & black & white.

Later reprint of Clarke’s decorative interpretation of Andersen’s tales, first published by Harrap in 1916.

There is a brightness and energy to these pictures that may have derived from the fact that this was Clarke’s first book and he was happy to be paid for his artistry