103 BAUMAN RARE BOOKS “One Of The Most Brilliant Adventure Stories Of All Times” 114STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Kidnapped. London, 1886. Octavo, original red cloth, custom chemise, slipcase. $8200 First edition, first issue of one of Stevenson’s most enduring works, from the library of renowned collector Frank Hogan, with his bookplate. “One of the most brilliant adventure stories of all times” (Carpenter & Prichard, 292), Kidnapped met with great success upon publication; “the austere Henry James [went] so far as to call Alan Breck ‘the most perfect character in English literature’” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 592). First issue, with all first issue points. Bookplate of celebrated bibliophile Frank J. Hogan. “As a collector, Hogan worked with all the energy and enthusiasm that contributed to his success in the legal profession… His library was an appealing and highly personal selection of literary treasures” (Dickinson, 163-64). Interior lovely with expert reinforcement to text block and rear inner paper hinges; cloth in beautiful condition. An exceptional copy. “The World’s First Great Fantasy Storyteller” 115ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Danish Fairy Legends and Tales. London, 1846. Small octavo, contemporary full green morocco gilt. $4200 One of the earliest translations of Andersen’s fairy tales into English, published the same year as the first English translation, with several tales appearing in English for the first time. “Hans Christian Andersen was the world’s first great fantasy storyteller” (Clute & Grant, 27). He first published a few of his influential and enormously popular fairy tales in his 1835 Eventyr fortalte for Born (Tales told for Children). The first English translation, by Mary Howitt (early 1846), was quickly followed by another translation in February 1846 and this edition, published in May. Included in this volume are the first English appearances of “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “The Nightingale,” “The Wild Swans” and “Old Luckoie,” as well as Peachey’s renderings of “The Little Mermaid, “Little Ida’s Flowers” and eight other classic stories. Interior fine, expert reinforcement to front free endpaper at gutter’s edge, upper front corner gently bumped. A beautiful copy.
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