May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(LEFLER, HEINRICH; and URBAN, JOSEPH.) Andersen, Hans Christian. Tales. 12 chromolithographed illustrations by Lefler and Urban, plates and text within wide elaborate Jugendstil motif borders. Thin small folio, 1/4 cloth and white paper-covered boards, toned and edges rubbed; pictorial dust jacket, browned and edgeworn with larger chips on rear panel; very minor crease and tiny chip to lower outer margin of first half of contents; neat inked ownership signature on front pastedown. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., circa 1911

Additional Details

first english book edition of the illustrations used for "Andersen's Kalender 1911." Designed and illustrated by Lefler and Urban, masters of the Vienna Secession, and printed by the same publisher as the Austrian edition.