Isak Dinesen from Berthoff Books

Random House, 1942. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 313 pages. First printing stated. Eleven tales. 8vo, gray cloth over boards heavily worn and soiled, color-printed end papers, backstrip half-disintegrated and taped with duct tape that cannot be removed without further damage, front hinge cracked, edges age-toned. Portrait of Dinesen clipped from a magazine taped to copyright page.… Ler mais sobre este item

Putnam, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 405 pages. UK (first) edition, late collection of Dinesen's tales. 8vo, black cloth with rubbed gilt lettering on spine, small vertical split at crown, slightly cocked, blue topstain faded, a few faint spots of foxing to fore-edge and end papers, in unclipped DJ lightly soiled/toned all over with browner tone to… Ler mais sobre este item

Random House, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 304 pages. The author more frequently used the pen name Isak Dinesen. This is the first English (American) edition of novel - set in 19th-century England - published in Danish as Gengældelsens Veje (Ways of Retaliation) in 1944 during the Nazi occupation of Denmark. Dinesen acknowledged her authorship only… Ler mais sobre este item