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Doubleday, 1977-10. Library Binding. Good.

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.

Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good. Doubleday, 1977. 108 pages. Dusty jacket has edgewear and some tattering along the top edge. Size: 9.6 x 7.7 x 0.5. Folklore/Mythology 6390L

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..

Pook Press. hardcover. New. 8x0x10. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Doubleday, 1977-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

London:: Folio Society,. Fine. 2000. Hardcover. First edition thus. Fine in a fine slipcase.; 204 pages .

New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth with illustrated color paper inset front cover, backstrip lettered in green. Near fine. 204 pages. 22 x 16.5 cm. Originally appeared in Sir G.W. Dasent's `Popular Tales from the Norse' by P.C. Asbjornsen and J.I. Moe. "Nielsen acknowledged that his work was influenced by the art of the early Italian Renaissance, but most of all by oriental art and the art of the Middle East." [see: JOHNSON p.78]. An unusual combination of full page color plates in offset lithography, and the small and more numberers color lithograph plates within the text. Owner inscription front cover pastedown.

[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… Read More