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.… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

Heinemann, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 229 pages. Foreword by Hannah Arendt (being a New Yorker review of a biography of Dinesen, from 1967). Translations from Danish by P.M. Mitchell, W.D. Paden. Dates of the essays, some written in English and some translated from Danish for this edition, range from 1938 to 1958. 8vo, cranberry-red cloth… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo