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A STORY ABOUT MR. SILBERSTEIN. Translated by Robert Greenwald
Edition: First edition in English
Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1995. Brown cloth. Fine in fine jacket. Publisher's packing list addressed to Leon Rooke laid in. Rooke blurb on rear panel of jacket. First novel translated into English by this Swedish novelist who also acted in Ingmar Bergman's films. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53386More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A STORY ABOUT MR. SILBERSTEIN. Translated by Roger Greenwald (PROOF COPY)
Edition: First US printing
Evanston, IL: Hydra Books / Northwestern University Press, 1995. Advance uncorrected proof. White non-pictorial card covers. pp (viii), 140, [4]. Light stain to rear cover blotted onto last leaf; front cover has the pencil name, phone number. and "5 min"; ink notes on half-title page; a few ink marks in text. Looks like Canadian author David Young was preparing to conduct an interview. First of his seven novels to be translated into English, by this noted Swedish actor and author who was especially celebrated for his work with Ingmar Bergman. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 52624More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
AUGUST STRINDBERG. Translated by Anselm Hollo
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. Brown cloth. pp 399 + plates. Index. Bibliography. Fine copy. Jacket has some sunning to spine and inner edge of panels, VG+ otherwise. 1.5 kg parcel; Octavo
Book ID: 50867More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
BERNARD FOY'S THIRD CASTLING. Translated by Yvonne L Sandstroem.
Edition: First American Edition
New York: New Directions, 1988. Octavo, viii, 260 pp. Red cloth. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Novel by an acclaimed Swedish author. 0811210863
Book ID: 17474More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
BY THE OPEN SEA. Authorized translation by Ellie Schleusnner
Edition: First US issue
New York: Huebsch, 1913. Beige cloth. Bit of tanning and light foxing to spine; page edges yellowed; 1914 ink name at front blotted onto front pastedown; one leaf a little ragged at fore edge; VG otherwise. A novel, made from UK sheets.
Book ID: 46797More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
DEN SVENSKA TÄNDSTICKSINDUSTRIENS HISTORIA: före de stora sammanslagningarna
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 34987More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50 -
Kort inledning til den gamla och nya swenska historien, begynnarom til tjenst, af de trowa¨rdigaste skribenter, samt a¨ldre och nyare handlingar, sammandragen, af Elisæo Hyphoff. Och til na¨rwarande tider fortsat
Gotheborg: Georg Lange, 1757. Small octavo, 162 mm. pp [4]. 192 + [2, Register]. Bound in old plain half calf and boards. Boards have some rubbing, light stains, and edge wear; C 18 ink inscriptions on front pastedown; no front free endpaper (as issued, I believe); mild ink underlining on page 27; light damp stain to last few leaves; else a VG clean and tight copy. Pages 173 to end update the text from 1743 to 1755 and are headed "Imprimatur, N. von Oelreich." Previously publish8ed Gotheborg, 1744. 8vo. 172 pp
Book ID: 22960More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
LACEMAKER LEKHOLM HAS AN IDEA. Translated by F.H. Lyon
Edition: First UK printing
London: Allen & Unwin, 1930. Green cloth. Spine very lightly darkend, with very narrow band of sunning at ends; page edges tanned, with a couple of foxing spots to bottom edges; light yellowing to endpapers; else fine and very bright, no owner names. Dust jacket has overall yellowing; spine is quite darkened, a bit rubbed, and has chips across ends (no lettering lost); small chiips and tears to outer corners; just good. This Swedish author's most important novel.
Book ID: 41651More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
MEMORY OF YOUTH. Translated from the Swedish by Edwin Bjorkman.
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1937. Black cloth, red topstain. Light yellowing to page edges, topstain sunned to pink, else fine, no previous owner marks. Black dust jacket has small chips and tears to tips of lightly tanned spine; short tears, rubbing to folds, tiny corner chips to front panel; white rear panel quite tanned, with a thumbnail size chip to top; VG otherwise, flap price intact, still respectable in appearance. The first novel in a trilogy about the flight from the agrarian life in rural Sweden and the consequent rise in violence in society. Important Swedish author's first book in the USA.
Book ID: 11123More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
SEVEN BEDS TO CHRISTMAS
Edition: First printing
London: Hutchinson, 1967. Octavo, green cloth. Light yellowing to free endpapers, else a fine, fresh copy, no owner names, in a fine, bright dust jacket, flap price intact. British author's third novel, set in Sweden, where he had lived. A particularly nice copy.
Book ID: 37275More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
STORIES OF HAPPY PEOPLE. Translated from the Swedish by Yvonne L. Sandstroem and John Weinstock
Edition: First American Edition
New York: New Directions, 1986. Octavo, 134 pp. Blue cloth. Very light sunning to margins of covers, small corner bruise to rear cover, very small abrasion to front pastedown, ink gift inscription on half-title leaf, else fine in fine jacket. 0811209776
Book ID: 46743More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
TALES OF SWEDEN AND THE NORSEMEN
Book ID: 42608More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00
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THE HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION IN SWEDEN, occasion'd by the change of religion, and alteration of the government, in that kingdom. Written originally in French by the Abbot Vertot: printed in Paris. And now done into English by J. Mitchell, M.D.
London: M. Poulson, W. Taylor, and others, 1723. Octavo, recently rebound in half black morocco, red spine label, light brown boards and endpapers, marbled page edges. pp [2, binder's blank], (24), 312, [binder's blank]. Short tear to top margin of title leaf neatly repaired, else fine. Fifth edition (first edition in English was in 1696). ESTC T81945.
Book ID: 41519More details Price: USD $175.00 USD $157.50