- Squarish octavo, cream boards (bumped; slightly darkened at extremities); titled in gilt on front cover & spine; in color pictorial dw (soiled & rubbed; slightly chipped at extremities). 149pp. Textual illustrations and 36 tipped-in color photographic illustrations. Very good.

From the library of American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, inscribed to him by the head of the tourism department.

"This is a book about Hans Christian Andersen ‚ but it is a book with a difference. The author, the editor Axel Dreslov, who is one of the most sincere admirers of Hans Andersen, takes the reader for a walk through the poet's childhood town." -- From the dw blurb.

TRAVEL; EXPLORATION; DENMARK; CHILDREN; ILLUSTRATED; BIOGRAPHY; LEONARD BERNSTEIN; MUSIC; HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN; ODENSE; FAIRY-TALES.