Var Tids Kunst og Diktning i Skandinavia : Norge I (Art and Poetry in Scandinavia Volume I : Norway)
by Shetelig, Haakon (editor)
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
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About This Item
Oslo: Johan Grundt Tanum, 1948. First Edition (NAP). . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Photographs. Norwegian language. Small quarto in cream boards backed with red cloth. The boards carry a leaf pattern in slate-blue and gray; the spine titles are stamped in gilt. Corresponding 1948 dates to the title and copyright pages; no additional printings (this date also appears on the dust wrapper). Volume I of a three-volume set, which incorporated the art and poetry of Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark and Sweden). Contents include architectural history, painting, sculpture, theater, poetry and music. Bookplate of Norwegian-American collector Herman Gimmestad to the front pastedown, otherwise unmarked. The cloth shows only a hint of edgewear. The dust wrapper has light edgewear with three short closed tears (1/4" or less); no chips; not price-clipped. A clean, tight copy with the jacket now in mylar. A folded illustrated map of the Norsk Folkemuseum by C. Doy is laid in. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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- Title
- Var Tids Kunst og Diktning i Skandinavia : Norge I (Art and Poetry in Scandinavia Volume I : Norway)
- Author
- Shetelig, Haakon (editor)
- Illustrator
- Photographs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition (NAP).
- Publisher
- Johan Grundt Tanum
- Place of Publication
- Oslo
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- NORWAY ART PAINTING SCULPTURE POETRY ARCHITECTURE NORGE NORSE CULTURE SCANDINAVIA NORWEGIAN LANGUAGE
- Bookseller catalogs
- foreign language; Art; Norway and Scandinavia;
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