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DINESEN, ISAK - Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales

Title: Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales
Description: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. Hardcover. ISBN: 0226153037. 2nd printing, 1977. A collection of eleven tales by the master Danish storyteller Isak Dinesen (pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen). None of these stories had appeared in book form in English before the appearance of this edition. Many were written when Dinesen was first starting as a writer, some with her original pen name of "Osceola". Others were being worked on at her death in 1962. Foreword by Frans Lasson. --- In full navy cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket with wrap-around illustration by Virgil Burnett. --- A clean, firm, unmarked copy lacking apparent damages. Unclipped jacket in excellent condition, but with a tiny tear, a hint of spine sunning and slight rubbing; protected in removable mylar wrapper.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall) ; xi, 338 pages. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0226153037 >>Classic Fiction, Literature

Price: US$ 19.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 80046