Johan Bojer, the Man and His Works
by Gad, Carl
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Lacking
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Moffat, Yard and Co, 1920. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Lacking. 260 p. 19 cm. Smallish 8vo. Blue cloth over boards, orange lettering to spine. Book Condition: Mild wear to extremities, foxing to first few pages. Very Good+ overall. Lacking the rare dust jacket. Bojer was considered by his contemporaries to be the most important Scandinavian writer since Ibsen. Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Jelliffe Macintire. With an introd. by Llewellyn Jones and critiques by John Galsworthy, Joseph Hergesheimer, James Branch Cabell and Cecil Roberts. Frontispiece is a portrait of Bojer drawn by Kahil Gibran; there is a brief forward by Howard Willard Cook geared exclusively to the extraordinary excellence of this drawing. There are two introductions, one by the author, and one by Llewellyn Jones. Galsworthy, Hergesheimer, Cabell and Roberts contribute essays on individual works which are found in the appendix. There is a "glossary" of Bojer's works following the appendix.
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Details
- Bookseller
- DuBois Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002440
- Title
- Johan Bojer, the Man and His Works
- Author
- Gad, Carl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Lacking
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Moffat, Yard and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
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About the Seller
DuBois Rare Books
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New York, New York
About DuBois Rare Books
Dealing in fine, rare and odd books since 2009; collecting since forever.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.