East of the Sun and West of the Moon - Old Tales From the North.
P. C. Asbjornsen, Moe., Kay Nielsen
Hardcover
(George H. Doran, March 15, 1927)
a reprint of the 1920's edition (1914 was the first US thus illustrated); bevelled yellow-orange cloth boards with red lettering, endpapers decorated with top and bottom frieze of trolls and other creatures, with 25 coloured tipped-in plates as issued in the 1914 edition, all pages bordered and many b/w illus in text,6.5x9". Juvenile hardback in clear mylar protector. Stories selected from the Norske Folkeeventyr of Asbjornsen and Moe, most from Dasent's translation. Elegantly supernatural, yet true to the landscape and peasant culture of the North, these are magnificent illustrations.