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Lot 173
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$6,000 -
8,000
Price Realized
$6,875
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Lot Description
[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. NIELSEN, Kay (1886-1957), illustrator. -- ASBJORNSEN, Peter Christen (1812-1885). East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Old Tales from the North. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
4to. Colored frontispiece and plates tipped to mounts, lettered tissue-guards, numerous in-text illustrations. Contemporary blue crushed levant gilt, upper cover with elaborate gilt border after Nielsen's illustrations, top edge gilt, others uncut, turn-ins gilt, preserving original endpapers, STAMP-SIGNED BY ZAEHNSDORF (covers very slightly bowed).
LIMITED EDITION, number 1 of 500 copies SIGNED BY NIELSEN of the second work published by him. A FINE COPY.