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[REAGAN, Nancy (1921–2016), her copy]. NIELSON, Kay (1886–1957), illustrator. East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North. London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [ca. 1920].
Royal 8vo. 24 tipped–in color plates including frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations. Original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in blue–gray and black (spine a bit sunned, some cockling along joints and edges over lower cover, front hinge gently cracked).
Provenance: Mrs. Ronald Reagan (ownership stamp listing their 1669 San Onofre Dr. residence in the Pacific Palisades where both Nancy and Ronald lived from 1957 to 1981 before moving to the White House once Ronald became President); Harrods Libreria (book label). Early edition of one of Nielsen’s most important works.