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Garden City Publishing Company. Hardcover. Used - Very Good/Good. Garden City Publishing, VG hardcover with G dust jacket. DJ has some mild and moderate tears and chipping, mostly along its top edge and its spine extremes--but is unmarked and now well preserved in a mylar cover. Book binding is tight and pages and textblock are unmarked. Boards show minimal wear and cover image is unmarred and vibrant. Name and date written in pen on inside of front board, along with a little inscription. Penciled price on front loose endpaper. Will pack carefully.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Old Tales from the North by Asbjörnsen, Peter C. and Jérgen E. Moe (Kay Nielsen, Illustrator) - 1930
by Asbjörnsen, Peter C. and Jérgen E. Moe (Kay Nielsen, Illustrator)
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Old Tales from the North
by Asbjörnsen, Peter C. and Jérgen E. Moe (Kay Nielsen, Illustrator)
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- Hardcover
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1930. Book. Illus. by Nielsen, Kay, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. Later printing.. Very clean and beautiful later printing in illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth boards with clean and bright large color paste-on illustration on cover (by Victor Candell) - no chipping or wear. Green lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying to cloth boards. Very slight fading to spine ends. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Pages and edges are clean with green top-stained upper page edges. Gorgeous full-page color illustrations, including lovely frontispiece of a young woman gazing at her image in the water. Illustrated title page. 204 pages. Clean jacket has chipping at top and bottom spine edges, slight edge wear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A really nice copy of this scarce and wonderful book..
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- Illustrator Nielsen, Kay, Illustrator
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition Very Good+
- Edition Later printing.
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Garden City Publishing
- Place of Publication Garden City, NY
- Date Published 1930
- Keywords FAIRY TALES, SCANDINAVIAN KAY NIELSEN, ILLUSTRATOR, VICTOR CANDELL, CHILDREN'S FOLK TALES
We have 3 copies available starting at NZ$90.78.
East of The Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from The North
by Illustrator Kay Nielsen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
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Sacramento, California, United States
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EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON: OLD TALES FROM THE NORTH
by Illustrator Kay Nielsen
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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NZ$93.26
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Garden City Publishing Company, January 1936. Hardcover. Good. used hardcover copy, lacking a dust jacket. No markings to end papers. Includes color plates and black and white illustrations. Some wear/staining to back board in the form of spotting/blemish marks. light shelfwear, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight, and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws save for the lack of the original jacket.
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EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON
by NIELSEN, KAY, Illustrator
- Used
- Condition
- Used
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- First Edition with Nielsen's illustrations, trade issue
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McMinnville, Oregon, United States
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[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]. First Edition with Nielsen's illustrations, trade issue. 284 x 220 mm. (11 1/8 x 8 3/4"). 1 p.l., 206 pp., [1] leaf. Attractive dark blue morocco by Asprey (stamp-signed in gilt on pastedown), replicating the original cloth binding in color and decoration, upper cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, cream silk moiré endpapers, all edges gilt. With 25 tipped-in color plates with descriptive tissue guards, numerous black and white text illustrations. ◆Back cover with the vaguest hint of soiling and use, otherwise a virtually faultless copy. Offered here in a beautiful morocco binding imitating the design of the original cloth, this is the greatest work of celebrated Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen (1886-1957); it may also be the most beautiful children's book ever published. The work includes 15 Norwegian folk tales accompanied by Nielsen's darkly evocative illustrations that conjure wintry landscapes, moody heroes, and…
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