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Peer Gynt
by IBSEN, Henrik
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, CT: The Heritage Press, 1985. Hardcover. Translation by Willliam and Charles Archer. Illustrations by Per Krohg. Small 4to. Dark blue cloth with yellow lettering and pale blue paper over boards with blue/yellow pictorial stamping, paper-covered slipcase. xvii, 315pp, xix-xxiv. Numerous illustrations (some color). Fine/fine. Unusually pristine, tight copy of this reprint of the 1957 trade edition of the Limited Editions Club edition -- but with choice, relevant autograph additions from two thespians who each appeared in significant productions of this play, each signing fine, matching, heavy stock 5" X 3" cards. Top to bottom: SYBIL THORNDIKE (1881-1976) boldly signs "Sylbil Thorndike Casson" in black ballpoint, adding "with good wishes" below and dating it "July 13th" [1970] at upper right; and MAX VON SYDOW (1929-2020) boldly signs in black fineline, dating it "10/18/77" at upper right. Thorndike portrayed Ase in a famed production at London's Old Vic that included Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, while Von Sydow in 1957 portrayed the title role in an Ingmar Bergman production in Sweden. Laid in are the original Thorndike and Von Sydow transmittal envelopes and the relevant "Sandglass" issue. An exceptionally tight 'n' bright and certainly an unusual copy.
Synopsis
Henrik Ibsen was born of well-to-do parents at Skien, a small Norwegian coastal town, on March 20, 1828. In 1836 his father went bankrupt, and the family was reduced to near poverty. At the age of fifteen, he was apprenticed to an apothecary in Grimstad. In 1850 Ibsen ventured to Christiania — present-day Oslo — as a student, with the hope of becoming a doctor. On the strength of his first two plays he was appointed “theater-poet” to the new Bergen National Theater, where he wrote five conventional romantic and historical dramas and absorbed the elements of his craft. In 1857 he was called to the directorship of the financially unsound Christiania Norwegian Theater, which failed in 1862. In 1864, exhausted and enraged by the frustration of his efforts toward a national drama and theater, he quit Norway for what became twenty-seven years of voluntary exile abroad. In Italy he wrote the volcanic Brand (1866), which made his reputation and secured him a poet’s stipend from the government. Its companion piece, the phantasmagoric Peer Gynt , followed in 1867, then the immense double play, Emperor and Galilean (1873), expressing his philosophy of civilization. Meanwhile, having moved to Germany, Ibsen had been searching for a new style. With The Pillars of Society he found it; this became the first of twelve plays, appearing at two-year intervals, that confirmed his international standing as the foremost dramatist of his age. In 1900 Ibsen suffered the first of several strokes that incapacitated him. He died in Oslo on May 23, 1906.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47551
- Title
- Peer Gynt
- Author
- IBSEN, Henrik
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, CT
- Date Published
- 1985
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; World Literature;
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Galena, Illinois
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