[NIELSEN, Kay]. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. [NY]: Doran [1922]. 4to, 204pp. Yellow buckram cloth stamped in red. Pictorial endpapers; 25 tipped-in color plates. Spine ends and lower corners slightly rubbed, else a clean, bright copy in original pictorial dust jacket (a bit of edgewear, spine panel sunned).

 

First Nielsen-illustrated US edition, having been issued 8 years prior in the UK in a larger trim size. Nielsen’s delicate, detailed, and remarkable illustrations bring out the richness of these fascinating Scandinavian folk tales, most of which originally appeared in Sir G.W. Dasent’s Popular Tales from the Norse.