PEDER SEIER: SYVENDE TUSEN (Signed First Edition)

Oslo: Forlagt Av H. Aschehoug & Co, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Oslo: Forlagt Av H. Aschehoug & Co., 1928.

First Norwegian Edition, First Printing predating the English edition (i.e. the True First Edition).

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.

Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; pages clean; light foxing to endpapers; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER; slight wear. a couple of small marks on rear cover; dust jacket is worn with some chipping along edges and moderate soil.

Ole Edvart Rølvaag (Rølvåg in modern Norwegian, Rolvaag in English orthography) (April 22, 1876 November 5, 1931) was a Norwegian-American novelist and professor who became well known for his writings regarding the Norwegian American immigrant experience. Ole Rolvaag is most frequently associated with Giants in the Earth, his award-winning, epic novel of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in Dakota Territory. Ole Rølvaag wrote in the Norwegian language, but his novels have a distinct American flavor and theme. Rolvaag was deeply influenced by earlier American writers who, writing in Norwegian, had faithfully portrayed the experiences of so many Norwegian immigrant pioneers. In this he was strongly influenced by Hans Andersen Foss and Peer Stromme, both of whom had written novels which provided realistic aspects of the homesteader's experience. The Emigrants by Norwegian author Johan Bojer, first published in 1925, follows many of these same themes. Rølvaag in turn provided an equally strong influence on future Scandinavian writers. Rølvaag attracted a number of gifted young Norwegian-Americans to St. Olaf College, among them Einar Haugen. Written decades later, Vilhelm Moberg's novels would depict the experience of Swedish-American immigrants.

Very scarce signed in dust jacket.

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