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New York: Vintage International/Published by Vintage Books/A Division of Random House, Inc., 2002. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Ingsu Liu (Cover Design); Louise Matthiasdottir (Cover Painting);. 605 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. First edition in English of this Icelandic author's satiric look at his homeland, inspired by the life of alienated poet Magnus Hjaltason Magnusson, the last of his "epic" novels, not well-received in Iceland because of its "harshly ironic portrayal of a backward Iceland during the rise of capitalism"; Laxness won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955. Stout hardcover, full blue cloth, silver titling. Light wear to book, rear corners bumped (affecting the pages as well as the boards); jacket shows minor edgewear, faint creases, $7.95 price intact. Text clean; xvii, blank, 521 pages + list of other publications in the UW's Nordic Translation Series. A surcharge for international shipping of this oversize book may be required; please inquire for an accurate quote.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Large Octavo.