Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Selected and Illustrated by Elenore Abbott. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1942. Pp vii, 308. Black cloth , pictorial boards, in publisher’s dust jacket. A very good copy.

Illustrated with nine plates in colour by American art-nouveau illustrator & painter, Elenore Abbott.

Contains: Hansel and Grethel; Briar Rose, Little Snow-white; Cinderella, Little Red Cap among the 34 stories featured.