Swedish Fiction

New York: The Viking Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Translated into English by Mary Sandbach. Jacket design by Robert Nemser. Endpapers lightly faded, small spot on top edge, a very good copy in a very good lightly rubbed dustwrapper with short nicks on spine ends and corners. American writer Marguerite Young's copy with her name penned on half-title page. Ms. Young was best know for her novel *Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.*.

Stockholm: Limited Editions Club, 1953. Hardcover. Spine darkened. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Eric Palmquist. Large octavo (7" x 11") bound with a white natural Swedish linen spine and corner tips with sides of a tough rag paper colored by hand. Printed on paper made in Sweden for this book at the Royal Printing Office, Norstedt & Soner of Sweden. Translated into English Verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lucius Sherman, Thomas and Martha Holcomb, and William Lewery Blackley, with the... Read more about this item

New York: Liveright, 1973. Softcover. Near Fine. Liveright paperbound edition. Translated from the Swedish by Arvid Paulson. Modest wear, else near fine in pictorial card covers. Liveright, L-84.

Paladin. Good+. 1991. Paperback. 0586089934 . Trade Paperback in good+ condition. Pages are tightly bound and unmarked with age tanning to the edges. Heavy wear to the cover edges and a crease to the front cover bottom corner. "In the 1930s, Finnish poet Bo Carpelan found mention of his great-uncle Axel in a biography of the composer Jean Sibelius. This friendship is the genesis of Carpelan's fictional diary of Axel's dual obsession with music and with a man who, unlike him, had enough... Read more about this item

(Uppsala: Almquist & Wiksell, Tryckeri, 1976. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 85pp. Blue printed wrappers. Spine a touch faded with bump, corners lightly bumped, else a near fine copy with some pages unopened. Inscribed by the author on the title.

Stockholm: A. B. Boktryckerivara, 1941. First Edition (?). Softcover. Good +. Large octavo, unpaginated (about 32pp.), illustrated. A good or better copy in the publisher's printed wraps. Wraps partly detached, but holding, and some smudges to the front wrap. Apparently uncommon. Text in Swedish.

Stockholm: Norstedt, 1888. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, 172pp., illustrated. A very good copy, rebound in recent and attractive 3/4 brown polished calf and marbled boards. New endpapers. Internally bright and clean. Text in Swedish.