Bland Tomtar Och Troll #5

[MOE, Louis]. Bland Tomtar Och Troll. En Samling Sagor Och Berttelser. Utgivna av Julbockens redaktion. Redaktr Cyrus Granr. Teckningarna av Louis Moe. Femte rgngen. [A Collection of Fairy Tales and Stories. Published by Julbockens editors. Editor Cyrus Granr. Illustrated by Louis Moe. Fifth Year]. Gteborg, Sweden: hln & kerlunds Frlag, 1911. 8vo, 96pp. White cloth spine with color pictorial boards. Color pictorial title, 15 full-page and one half-page color illustrations, 3 full-page half-tone illustrations, and a number of smaller b&w drawings. Corners a bit worn, tiny mark at bottom of front board, endpapers and surrounding sheets a tad aged, else a remarkably clean, bright copy in original pictorial dust jacket (small chip at head of spine, tiny chips at corners, small faint damp-stain to spine). Rare in dust jacket!

First and only edition. The fifth of the annual Swedish collection of fairy tales, titled Among Gnomes and Trolls in English. This edition from 1911 was the only one to have been illustrated by Norwegian painter, illustrator, and writer Louis Moe. It is incredibly rare to find such early editions of these wonderful collections in their original jackets!