Edited by clara svendsen (9 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket as Issued. Second Printing. Minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; well illustrated with more than two hundred black and white photographs and reproductions paintings, drawings and manuscripts; 231 pages. Book. …

Condizione: Good. 1965. First printing. 209 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Laminated pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards assumed in good condition as covered with library laminated jacket. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. Stated First Edition. Quarto; pp; 227, index; profusely illustrated with photographs in black and white; gray cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket..

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Danish edition. Text in Danish. 230pp. Gray printed wrappers. Pages unopened, wrappers with minor edgewwear, very good in a very good dust jacket with toning, rubbing, and minor edgewear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Near Fine. First American edition. 209pp. Very faint offsetting on front pastedown else fine in a toned near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear on the front panel. Advanced review copy with publisher's material and author's photo laid in. Collection of essays paying tribute to Danish author Isak Dinesen.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Danish edition. Text in Danish. 230pp. Gray printed wrappers. Pages unopened, faint creases on the spine with light toning at the ends, near fine in a very good dust jacket with small tears, light toning, and loose lamination.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. pp.227, illustrated throughout with photographs. Blue boards, gilt. Ex-Library with new endpapers and minimal stamps. Dark sellotape marks on front and rear boards. In a fair protected dustjacket with wear and tape marks to inner flaps. Heavy book which may require extra overseas shipping.…

First edition of this tribute to the life of the brilliant Danish writer Karen Blixen, a collection of essays from her friends compiled by her secretary and companion Clara Svendsen. Octavo, original black cloth, green endpapers. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Bookplate to the front free endpaper of "Glenway Wescott" with a notation of the page his entry appears. Wescott was an expatriate American poet, novelist, and essayist who met Blixen in 1959 on her way to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In his entry, he writes, "Though I was not one of Isak Dinesen's old or close or important friends . at the news of her death I wept miserably." Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke was a supremely talented Danish author who is known under multiple pen names: Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrà zel. Dinesen's early years were strongly influenced by her father's relaxed manner and his love of the outdoor life and hunting. After his death and longing for the enviroment he created, she found some release in telling her younger sister Ellen hair-raising good-night stories, partly inspired by Danish folk tales and Icelandic sagas. Engaged at 28, Blixen left for Kenya, the site of her second and most well-known book, 'Out of Africa,' which she would write upon her return to Denmark eighteen years later. For her literary accomplishments, Blixen was awarded the Danish Holberg Medal in 1949, the Ingenio et Arti medal in 1952, granted the inaugural Hans Christian Andersen Scholarship of the Danish Writers Association in 1955 and received the Henrik Pontoppidan Memorial Foundation Grant in 1959. She was considered several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but ultimately did not receive it because judges were reportedly concerned about showing favoritism to Scandinavian writers.…