Description
The Very Good dust jacket illustrated with a person carrying a sword riding a horse on front, a list of Great Swedish Fairy Tales listed on back panel which has a soil spot. Some edge rub wear. A mylar dust jacket has been added. The Fine binding is white cloth over boards, dark blue cloth-backed. Embossed decoration in dark blue of lady on a horse. A tiny soil spot on front cover. Decorated end papers. Color illustrations by John Bauer. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 9.2″ tall x 7.3″ wide.
Stated “Second Printing-1974”
About the book (from the dust jacket)
The favorite fairy tales of generations of Swedish children are combined in this anthology with pictures by Sweden’s greatest illustrator of fairy tales, John Bauer. Gentle tomtes and malicious trolls, knights in search of princesses. elks and bears and other creatures of the deep northern forests, stream through this enchanted world. John Bauer, who ranks with Arthur Rackham, Howard Pyle and Gustave Dore, adds his own vision to these perennial stories. His gnarled, shaggy roils, mossy forest caverns, and slender medieval knights on stallions in the moon-light seem to express the essence of Scandinavian tradition and imagination.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
HOLGER LUNDBERGH, the translator of these stories, is the grandson of Halcha Nyblom, famous Danish story-teller, who wrote two of the fairy tales in this collection. Mr. Lundbergh has published a volume of verse and numerous articles, as well as translations from Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian.
About the illustrator (from the dust jacket)
IOHN BAUER
1882-1918
JOHN BAUER was one of the world’s greatest illustrators of fairy tales. During his short life time, he illustrated the work of almost all well-known Swedish storytellers, many of whom appear in this book. Generations of Swedish children have enjoyed his trolls, tomtes, knights and intrepid peasant boys, both in their books and as prints hanging in their bedrooms. John Bauer’s work reflects his knowledge of historic costumes, architecture and heraldry, and also his close familiarity with the Swedish landscape: the dark forests carpeted with moss and mushrooms, the tarns, the mountains and the lichen-covered boulders. Fame came early to John Bauer, but his career was tragically short. At the age of thirty-six, with his wife and two-year-old son, he was drowned on a steamer which sank to the bottom of Lake Vättern in southwest Sweden.
