Peer Gynt
by Ibsen, Henrik
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chanute, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1916. Half Leather - Hardbound. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to. Arthur Rackham. 255 pp, plus twelve colored plates of Arthur Rackham protected by captioned tissue guards. Red leather over spine and boards, with marbled paper over covers. Raised spine bands with gilt stamped lettering. Top edge is gilded. Marbled end leaves. Last few leaves with slight wave, appearing to have been pulled during binding. Volume is otherwise Fine.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032149
- Title
- Peer Gynt
- Author
- Ibsen, Henrik
- Illustrator
- Arthur Rackham
- Format/Binding
- Half Leather - Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1916
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's; Bindings;
- Size
- 4to
Terms of Sale
Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps
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About the Seller
Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps
Biblio member since 2005
Chanute, Kansas
About Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps
With more than 25 years of experience buying and selling out-of-print, collectible, and rare books, maps, and ephemera, I am now doing business from my home at 60 Poplar Heights Rd.; Chanute, KS 66720; U.S.A. by appointment only. I offer a selection of more than 5000 books of all genre, as well as more than 1000 maps ranging from 15th century to early 20th. All inventory is hand selected and believed to be of significance for the collector, the reader, the historian or the general book lover. Historically, I have specialized in Kansas and regional history, but also maintain quality collections of Natural History, Theology, Americana, Railroad, Travel and Exploration, Medicine, Art, and Psychology, Neurology, and Psychiatry. Fine bindings, plate books, signed and inscribed items are an important part of my collections. Smaller, though intriguing collections of other genre are also a part of my holdings. Appraisal, consultation, and collection development services are available. Please come and browse, talk books, and have a cup of coffee in a relaxed and book friendly environment. But for the convenience of both of us, please email or call first. Trade terms available and dealers are welcome.
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- Marbled Paper
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