1. Burnett, Frances Hodgson / Jessie Willcox Smith.

In the Closed Room. Illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith.

First Edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton [Printed in the USA by “The McClure Press”], 1904. Octavo. Frontispiece, III, [1], 129 pages with 8 beautiful illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Hardcover / original, beautifully illustrated publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spien and three coloured cover illustration. Interior in art nouveau style. One of the illustrations cleanly detached but still in very good condition (slightly frayed), one of the illustrations slightly detached. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some very minor and only very occasional staining to a few of the pages. Binding with some inor spotting to the rear board but very firm with the original artwork on endpapers and pastedown. Name of preowner on endpaper.

2. [Andersen, Hans Christian] Heltolft, Kjeld.

H.C. Andersens Billedkunst.

Kobenhavn, Gyldendal, 1969. 20 cm x 27.2 cm. 108 pages. With 35 blacka and white and colour plates & 1 folded plate. Original Softcover with original dustjacket. Good+ condition. Dustjacket in poor condition with some fraying. Deckled edges. Contains ephemera; Typed letter signed from the year 1974, addressed by the Publicity Manager of publisher Victor Gollancz (Georgina Denison) to Erik Haugaard in Ballydehob (Ireland), regarding the return of this book from “The National Book League” and the arranging of an “exhibition with the Danish Embassy next year to mark the centenary”. Inscribed by Kjeld Heltoft to Myrna and Erik Haugaard. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.