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Book Condition: Used Near Fine
Jacket condition: N
Seller: E C Books

United Kingdom
About Item: Paris : H Piazza, 1919 A near fine copy of the French edition of East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Contes Anciens du Nord, limited to 1,500 copies of which this is no. 1370, printed on 12 November 1919. Printed on Japan paper with red and black title page and 24 colour plates by Kay Nielsen. The binding is half leather with marbled boards. The spine has raised bands, stamped designs in the compartments and title label. The spine is slightly darkened and the corners have light turning. Endpapers are marbled with a silvery sheen. What looks like the front cover of the original wrap with gilt and red decoration is bound in and precedes the half title. Contents with preface, text and 24 plates pasted to their mounts and with captioned tissue guards. Contents listing at the rear. Each story has a title in red and a decorative initial capital. Contents are very clean. There is toning towards the page edges; a small mark to the tissue guard and corresponding mark to the plate mount bottom margin of the… Read More
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