[The Snow Queen appeared in a Copenhagen daily newspaper in 1829]
1835-1840
The Improvisatore (1835)
Eventyr fortalte for Bjorn (Tales Told for Children)
(1835)
[This contained the tales : The Tinder Box, Little Claus & Big Claus, Princess and the Pea,
Little Ida's Flowers
A second volume followed in the same year containing : Thumbelina, The Naughty Boy,
The Travelling Companions]
O.T. (1836)
Fairy Tales (1835-72)
Thumbelina (1836)
The Tinder Box (1836)
The Red Shoes
The Little Mermaid & The Emperor's New Clothes (1837)
The Tin Soldier (1838)
The Nightingale (1845)
The Ugly Duckling (1845)
1846-1850
Wonderful Stories for Children : Translated by Mary Howitt(1846 Chapman & Hall)
[The 1st English translation of his tales]
Danish Fairy Legends & Tales : Translated by Caroline Peachey (1846 Wm Pickering, London)
Offered in 1996 for £300
A Poet's Bazaar (1846 London. Translated by Charles Beckwith)
A Danish Story Book : TRanslated by Charles Boner (1846
Joseph Cundall)
- Count Pocci
The Shoes of Fortune & other Tales (1847 Chapman & Hall)
- Count Pocci
Tales from Denmark (1847
Joseph Cundall)
- Count Pocci
(1848 Grant & Griffith & Cundall)
re-issue in glazed paper on boards
A Picture Book without Pictures (1847 David Bogue, London)
Tales for the Young (1847 Burns)
- Dalziel Brothers
A Christmas Greeting to My English Friends (1847 R Bentley)
- dedicated to Charles Dickens
The Dream of Little Tuk & Other Tales (1848 Grant & Griffiths)
- Count Pocci
Rambles in the Romantic Regions of the Harz Mountains, Saxon Switzerland, etc
(1848 Bentley, London)
- Translated by Charles Beckwith
The Two Baronesses (1848 London. Translated by Charles Beckwith)
Tales from Denmark (1849 Grant & Griffith, London)
1851-1860
[In 1852 Andersen compiled an elaborate picture book for Rigmor Stampe, the great-niece of
his close friend Edvard Collin. He is known to have made about a dozen such volumes for children of
his friends. This copy is thought to be the last surviving copy in private hands - others are housed
in the Library of Congress, the Hans Andersen House and the Royal Library in Copenhagen.
The quarto volume of approx 300 pages sold at Sotheby's in 1997 for £320,000]
In Sweden (1852 London. Translated by K R K Mackenzie)
Tales and Fairy Stories (1853 Routledge)
- Henry Warren
The Ice Maiden (1853 R Bentley)
- Pearson, after Zwecker
The Little Mermaid, Ugly Duckling & Other Tales and Stories (1853 Routledge)
The Fairy Tale of My Life (1855)
(1943 British Book Centre, NY)
To Be or Not To be (1857 London. Translated by Mrs Bushby)
The Sand-Hills of Jutland (1860 Bentley)
(1860 Ticknor & Fields, Boston)
1861-1865
Andersen's Tales for Children (1861 Bell & Daldy)
- E H Wehnert
The Wild Swans (1863 J Haddock)
In Spain (1864 London. Translated by Mrs Bushby)
Stories and Tales (1864 Routledge)
- Dalziel Brothers, after A W Bayes
1866-1870
What the Moon Saw & Other Tales (1866 Routledge)
- Dalziel Brothers, after A W Bayes
The Silver Shilling and Other Tales (1866 Routledge)
- Dalziel Brothers
Out of the Heart : Spoekn to the Little Ones (1867 Routledge)
- Dalziel Brothers
The Will-o'-the-Wisps are in Town & Other New Tales (1867 Strahan, London)
- Swain
Later Tales (1869 London)
Fairy Tales and Sketches (1870 Bell & Daldy)
- Otto Speckter, Cooper, et al
The Wood Nymph (1870 Sampson Low & Marston)
1871-1900
Fairy Tales (1872 Sampson Low)
- plates by E V Boyle
The White Swan and Other Tales (1873 Hildesheimer & Faulkner)
- Alice Havers
Fairy Tales & stories (c1888 Routledge)
- A W Bayes
Stories and Fairy Tales (1893 Geo Allen, London)
- 2 vols. Arthur J Gaskin
Stories for the Household (1893 McLoughlin Bros)
Fairy Tales (1893 Arnold, London)
- E A Lemann
The Little Mermaid & Other Stories (1893 Lawrence & Bullen, London)
- J R Weguelin
[Filmed in 1989]
Danish Fairy Tales & Legends (1897 Sands)
- W Heath Robinson
Stories from Hans Andersen (c1898 Nister)
- E S Hardy
Fairy Tales (1899 Dodge, NY)
(1899 Newnes)
- Helen Stratton
Fairy Tales (1899 Dent)
- Charles, William & W Heath Robinson
Andersen's Fairy Tales : First Series (1900 Heinemann)
- Hans Tegner
1901-1910
Fairy Tales (1901 Wells, Gardner Darton)
- Gordon Browne
Fairy Tales (1902 Raphael Tuck)
- E J Andrews & S Jacobs
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1902 Dana Estes, Boston)
- Joseph J Mora
Fairy Tales and Stories (nd. c1910 Routledge)
- cover design by Jessie M King
Fairy Tales (1910 Dent)
- Maxwell Armfield
1911-1915
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1911 Jack)
- Cecile Walton
Stories from Hans Andersen (1911 Hodder & Stoughton)
- Edmund Dulac
+ 750 signed Ltd Ed
Signed Edition offered for £1000 in 1996
Fairy Tales (1912 A & C Black)
- A Duncan Carse. 250 Signed Ltd Ed
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1913 Constable)
- W Heath Robinson
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1913 Boots the Chemists, London)
- W Heath Robinson
The Ugly Duckling and Other Tales (1913 Dent)
- Maxwell Armfield
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1913 Constable)
- W Heath Robinson. Signed Ltd Ed 100
Oxford Complete Edition (1914 OUP)
- first complete edition in English of all 155 stories
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1914 Tuck)
(nd. David McKay, Phila)
- Mabel Lucie Attwell
1916-1925
Fairy Tales (1916 Harrap)
- Harry Clarke + Signed Ltd Ed
Fairy Stories (1917 Ward Lock)
- Margaret Tarrant
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1917 Chambers)
- Gordon Robinson
Fairy Tales and Stories (1921 Macmillan NY)
- Eric Pape
Fairy Tales (1922 Nelson)
- Honor Appleton
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1923 Hodder & Stoughton. New Ed)
- W Heath Robinson
The Wild Swans (c1922 Blackie)
Andersen's Fairy Tales (1923 Cupples, NY)
- John R Neil
Fairy Tales (1924 Hodder & Stoughton)
(1924 Doran, NY)
- Kay Nielsen
+ 500 De Luxe signed
Fairy Tales (c1925 London)
- Margaret Tarrant
1926-1935
The Red Shoes (1928 Cleverdon)
- Willi Harwerth Signed Ltd Ed
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1927 Hodder & Stoughton. Reissue of 1923 Ed)
- W Heath Robinson
Forty Stories (1930 London)
- Christine Jackson
Fairy Stories (c1931 Collins)
- Anne Anderson
Fairy Tales (1931 Harrap)
- Harry Clarke
Fairy Tales (1932 Harrap)
- Arthur Rackham Trade Edition
Fairy Tales (1932 Harrap)
- Arthur Rackham. 525 Signed Ltd Ed
Andersen's Fairy Tales (1933 Coward-McCann, NY)
- Elizabeth MacKinstry
Fairy Tales and Legends (1935 Cobden-Sanderson)
- Rex Whistler
Four Tales from Andersen (1935 Cambridge)
- Gwen Raverat
Fairy Tales and Legends (1935 Cobden-Sanderson)
- Rex Whistler]. Signed Ltd Ed
1936-1950
It's Perfectly True ! & Other Stories (1937 Macmillan)
- Vilhelm Pedersen
Han Andersen's Fairy Stories (Ed by S Louis Giraud)
(1938 Bookano Series)
(1944 Bookano, Strand Publications)
- 4 pop-ups
The Tinder Box & Other Tales (c1940's Sandle Bros, London)
- Allan Carter
Fairy Tales (1942 Ltd Eds Club NY)
- Fritz Kredel
The Snow Queen (1942 Macmillan)
- George & Doris Hauman
Fairy Tales (1943 Peter Lunn)
- W Schlosser
Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (1945 OUP, NY)
- Tasha Tudor
The Nightingale (1945 Ward)
- ene Cloke
The Sleeping Beauty (1947 Ward)
- Rene Cloke
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (1947 Lunn)
- H M Brock
Favourite Stories from Hans Andersen (nd. 1947 Edmund Ward)
- Rene Cloke
The Complete Andersen (newly trans by Jean Hersholt)
(1949 Ltd Editions Club NY)
- Fritz Kredel
[This contains all 168 stories, some never before translated into English
and a few never before published]
The Ugly Duckling (1949 Ltd Editions Club NY)
- Everett Gee Jackson
AFTER 1951
Forty Two Stories (1953 Faber)
- Robin Jacques
Six Fairy Tales by the Danish Writer (1955 Copenhagen)
- Vilhelm Pedesen
Fairy Tales (1961 OUP)
- E H Shepard
Thumbelina (1961 Scribner)
(1979 London)
- Elsa Beskow
The Nightingale (1965 Harper)
- Nancy Ekholm Burkert
The Wild Swans (1969 Longmans)
- M Brown
The Fir Tree (1970 Harper & Row)
- Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Seven Tales (1972 World's Work)
- Maurice Sendak
The Nightingale (1974 Abelard Schumann)
- Fulvio Testa
Hans Andersen's Fourteen Classic Tales (1978 Deutsch)
- Edward Ardizzone
The Snow Queen (a new version by Naomi Lewis)
(1979 Viking NY)
- Errol Le Cain
Michael Hague's Favourite Hans Andersen Fairy Tales (1981 Holt, US)
- Michael Hague
The Swan's Stories (Trans Brian Alderson)
(1997 Walker £12.99)
- Chris Riddell
[KURT MASCHLER PRIZE AWARD]
The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen (2004 Granta £15)
- Trans by Jeffrey & Diana Crone Frank
Fairy Tales (2004 Allen Lane £20)
- Translated by Tiina Nunnally
READING
George Browning : A Few Personal Recollections of Hans Christian Andersen (1875 London)
(Ed)
F Crawford : Hans Christian Andersen's Correspondence with the late Grand Duke
of Saxe-Weimar, Dickens, etc (1891 London)
R Nisbet Bain : Hans Christian Andersen - A Biography (1895 London)
Elith Reumert : Hans Christian Andersen - The Man (1927 Methuen)
Signe Toksvig : The Life of Hans Christian Andersen (1933 Macmillan)
Constance Buel Burnett : The Shoemaker's Son - The Life of Hans Christian Andersen (1943 Harrap)
Jean Hersholt : Catalogue of the Jean Hersholt Collection of Hans Christian Andersen
(1954 Washington)
Rumer Godden : Hans Christian Andersen - A Great Life in Brief (1955 NY)
Elias Bredsdorff : Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Dickens - A Friendship
and Its Dissolution (1956 Copenhagen)
Reginald Spink : The Young Hans Andersen (1962)
Fredrik Book : Hans Christian Andersen - A Biography (1962 Oklahoma UP)
Monica Stirling : The Wild Swan - The Life & Times of Hans Christian Andersen (1965 Collins)
Reginald Spink : Hans Andersen and His World (1972)
Elias Bredsdorf : Hans Christian Andersen - the Story of His Life and Work 1805-75 (1975 Phaidon)
Alison Prince : Hans Christian Andersen - The Fan Dancer (1998 Allison & Busby)
Jackie Wullschlager : Hans Christian Andersen - The Life of a Storyteller (2000 Penguin Press £20)