The Fir Tree

Hans Christian Andersen

Published by Kurt H. Volk, New York, 1959

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Original publisher's blue cloth binding and blue cloth slipcase. Silver foil lettering on front cover and spine of book. Book measures 6 1/4" x 9 1/4." Slipcase measures 6 1/2" x 9 1/2." Twenty-four pages, complete. Pages and covers of the book and slipcase are very clean and intact overall.

Han Christian Andersen's fairy tales about a little fir tree. A brief biography of Andersen precedes the story.

Colophon in the back: "This book has been conceived and designed by Kurt H. Volk, typographer, in the year of our Lord MCMLIX, and has been produced in a limited edition for his many friends. It is set in Bodoni Book with Le Mercure initials. Wood engraving by Bernard Brusell-Smith