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Growth of the Soil
by Hamsun, Knut
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Skyway, Washington, United States
Item Price
£60.53£48.43
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Later printing of the Lofoten Edition, beige cloth hard cover. Unmarked copy with some toning to spine and to endpapers. Square, tight, clean copy. Dust jacket has a triangular chip to lower front tip, with chipping also along top edge and spine ends. Original price intact on front flap, offered in clean mylar. Translated from the Norwegian by W. W. Worster. Book One, 253pp.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
Synopsis
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature-the first new English translation since the novel's original publication ninety years ago When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting literary experience. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian back country, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the acclaimed Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Hamsun's novel is a work of preternatural calm, stern beauty, and biblical power-and the crowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Turn-The-Page Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24749
- Title
- Growth of the Soil
- Author
- Hamsun, Knut
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Size
- 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Turn-The-Page Books
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Skyway, Washington
About Turn-The-Page Books
Customer service is our top priority! Susan is an ALA member librarian and lifelong book collector and enthusiast. Peter has happily spent over 30 years in the used book business. Books are well packaged to prevent damage in transit.
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- Chipping
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Spine
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