East of The Sun and West of The Moon, Old Tales From The North. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen.

  • Nielsen, Kay, [George Webbe Dasent]
  • London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited. 1924

£350

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Description

Large 8vo, pp. [3]-284, [2] + mounted colour frontispiece and 23 mounted colour plates. Other illustrations included within pagination. One plate mounted to following blank as issued. Original yellow cloth, spine and front board lettered in black, front board decorated in black and blue, top edge yellow. Boards a little soiled, spine slightly darkened. Contemporary ownership inscription to flyleaf: ‘The book belongs to M. Baird-Smith’.

Notes

An early reprint of Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen's 1914 edition of tales from Norse mythology, using the text of G.W. Dasent's translation 'Popular Tales of the Norse'.

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