MPT 3: Modern Poetry in Translation; Spring 1967
London: MPT, 1967. Pamphlet. 24p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, poetry in English, good booklet in stapled tan printed wraps. Scandinavian and German poets. More
Cat.No: 300145
London: MPT, 1967. Pamphlet. 24p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, poetry in English, good booklet in stapled tan printed wraps. Scandinavian and German poets. More
Cat.No: 300145
[Stockholm]: Bonniers Juniorförlag, 1980. Staplebound. [16p.], staplebound exhibition catalog, 7x8.25 inches. Illustrated profusely with b&w photographs and Jansson's art. Text in Swedish. Ex-libris stamps inside cover, else very good. More
Cat.No: 288688
[New York-?]: Federation of Iceland Co-Operative Societies, 1950. 18p. of text about the history and contemporary status of the Cooperative movement, followed by 11 pages of statistical appendices; mimeographed, wraps bound with cloth tape, as issued. Edgeworn, lower portion curled. Laid in is an edgeworn mimeographed cover letter on the..... More
Cat.No: 217942
Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 1998. Hardcover. 167p., illustrated with a great many b&w photographs of parishioners, mostly elderly men and women, text entirely in Swedish, 9.5x8.5 inch boards in dust jacket, jacket slightly edgeworn. A very good copy. The portrait photography is excellent and is well-reproduced. More
Cat.No: 180177
London: Kegan Paul International, 1999. Hardcover. x, 189p., preface, remarks on transcription & spelling, biographical notes on contributors, footnotes, illustrated with photos, maps, figures, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 214092
Oakland: PM Press, 2020. Paperback. xxi + 179p., 5.5x8.5 inches, trade paperback, B&W and color photos, New. More
Cat.No: 248409
Reykjavik: Helgafell, 1969. Hardcover. 448p., deluxe reprint, 8x5.5 inch papered boards with black cloth backstrip titled/decorated in gilt, in dust jacket; back cover displays a color photoportrait of Laxness. The book itself is clean, sound and unmarked, while the dj is slightly edgeworn. A very good copy. More
Cat.No: 235464
New York: Vantage Press, 1976. Hardcover. 86p., first edition, very good condition in a slightly shelf worn dj. On a Scandinavian community in Minnesota in the 1890s. More
Cat.No: 133388
San Francisco: Geographical Society of the Pacific, 1910. pp. 51-81, entire volume devoted to Niebaum's translations of Norse records of settlement in Vinland. Light handling wear, rear cover has several small rust spots. More
Cat.No: 260982
Dusseldorf-Koln: Eugen Diederichs Verlag, 1963-7. Hardcover. Later printing, black letter, complete set, unobtrusively ex-library. Hardbound, white cloth spines titled black over matched 8x5.5 inch textured apricot boards, decorated with period vignettes. Slightest shelfwear, a clean sound set which was once rubber-stamped "English Dept. Library" in the upper corner of each..... More
Cat.No: 263202
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1941. xiii + 109p., 6x9 inches, map frontis., stapled binding with some rust to staples, light soiling and toning to wraps, interior pages are clean and bright, presentation card laid in, good condition over all. Engraved presentation card says: "This Book is Presented With the..... More
Cat.No: 241149
Northfield, Minn. St. Olaf College Press, 1922. Hardcover. 200p. in illustrated cloth boards, tiny stains on covers, some edgewear, pages toned else very good first edition. Text in Norwegian. Essays from the Norwegian-American novelist and professor. More
Cat.No: 318289
Stockholm, Sweden: Arbetslivscentrum, 1979. Paperback. 146p.., wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 307256
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961. Hardcover. ix, 134p., beige boards, 6.25x9.25 inches, very good. Previous ownership signature on front free endpaper. More
Cat.No: 280857
Oslo - Bergen - Tromsö: University of Nebraska Press / The Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities, 1974. Hardcover. 393p., original blue cloth boards, dj edgeworn, tear along head and tail of spine, rear dj chipped and slightly creased, ownership signature on free endpaper, else in very good..... More
Cat.No: 277532
Austin TX / New York: Host Publications, 1989. Paperback. 209p., eccentric illustrations on very good paper, in color or reproduced sepia, a fine big softbound in 10x8 inch decorated wraps. Original texts, including some in Farsi cursive, on versos facing recto translation to English. Fore-edge bears two dings from impact..... More
Cat.No: 294194
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, n.d. 397p., a handsome little period piece in nice shape. Hardbound, 7.5x5 inch green cloth boards titled and extensively decorated in bright gilt, all edges tinted red. Upper cover has lost a line of cloth margin to mouse-nibble (not immediately apparent), the decorated endsheets are mildly..... More
Cat.No: 261996
Garden City: Anchor Books / Doubleday, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. x, 422p., very slight shelfwear, small rubberstamp on half-title page, ink stain on bottom-edge, owner's signature and inscription noting they bought it from "Du Bois Bookstore Kent, Ohio," else in very good condition. The History of Communism. More
Cat.No: 277555
Stockholm: C.E. Fritzes Bokforlags Aktiebolag, 1935. Hardcover. 78p., illustrated with 7 color plates on inserted stock, plus scattered b&w sketches in-text, first edition hardbound in 7.5x5 inch green cloth boards titled gilt. Entirely in the Swedish language. Cover titling is rubbed and dim, but legible, there is a mild crack..... More
Cat.No: 259267
New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1966. Hardcover. ix, 179p., frontis, preface, appendices, index, footnotes, map, very good reprint edition in dark blue cloth boards. Both endsheet gutters toned (binder's-paste creep?) the only flaw we see. Sound, clean, unmarked, very good copy. More
Cat.No: 272721
New York: Tomorrow's Man Pub. 1966. Magazine. 48p. includes covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, b&w physique style photos, semi-nude with posing pouches, color centerfold, very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Special issue focusing on Scandinavian male models. More
Cat.No: 299350
Shanghai: Xin wen yi chu ban she 新文藝出版社, 1956. 62p., slender paperback, very good. Description of the author's travels in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland. More
Cat.No: 227928