The Happy Boy: A Tale of Norwegian Peasant Life
Boston and Cambridge: Sever, Francis, & Co., 1870. Hardcover. Green stamped cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, 120 pp. plus ads, one BW engraving as frontispiece. G- (Has average edgewear and slight soil or age marks on covers; front hinge is loose; tissue guard and frontispiece are foxed; other pages are clear; AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE is laid in on tp.). Item #152917
An American edition of Norwegian author Björnstjerne Björnson's 1860 "En glad Gut." Björnson (1832-1910) would later win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1903. This copy contains a tipped in page with the AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE on it, at the title page. A rare find indeed.
Price: $400.00
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