Knut Hamsun
by Skavlan, Einar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1929. First Edition. HB. Half brown leather and green patterned paper covered boards, gilt lettering on green panel on spine, 8vo, 356 pp., all edges of text block stained green. Frontis portrait of Hamsun tipped in. Biography of Hamsun (1859-1952), Norwegian author and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920. No marks in book, binding tight. Covers show some edge wear, scuffing to leather backstrip. Book condition VG. Text in Norwegian.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parker's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HD6938
- Title
- Knut Hamsun
- Author
- Skavlan, Einar
- Format/Binding
- HB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
- Place of Publication
- Oslo
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Parker's Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Ontario, Wisconsin
About Parker's Rare Books
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Glossary
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- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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