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The New American Library, 1962-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

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NEW YORK: Signet, 1962 Book. Very Good (+) Book. Soft cover. First Printing. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Secure binding with clean pages and light wear to the extremities. Softcover book with 318 pages..

Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1923. Red cloth boards are detatched, spine cover missing, back board in two pieces. Text pages lightly tanned, clean with no markings. . Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Little, Brown and company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1898. Hardcover. Cover worn and spotted; 473 pages .

Press, 1982. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Press Forlagstryckeri, Karlstad, 1982. First edition. From the Swedish. Fine and bright pictorial stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text throughout. Bright. Neat owner's bookplate, attractive, to the opening flyleaf which bothers none of the text. The woman photograph on the cover edition.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1929. Marbacka Edition. 473 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Scuffing to front pastedown. Visible creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Brown marks to boards.

Fritzes Kungl, 1959. Hardcover. Good. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 393 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Well bound and clean pages, with mild tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm. Some dents around edges. Boards are slightly bowed.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Gilt lettering on red covers. 12mo, 473pp. Spine torn at the top edge, rear hinge loose.

Stockholm: Fritzes Kungl. Hovbokhandel, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 393 pp. The lower fore-corners are very lightly bumped. The jacket is chipped at the head of the spine, and has a 1/2" closed tear at the base of the spine. Translated from the Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flach and W. H. Hilton-Brown.

MP3 Audio CD. Nobel-prize winner Selma Lagerlöf is most widely known for her Niels Holgerson stories, but her literary talent is present in her less famous works as well, such as The Story of Gösta Berling, also known as The Gösta Berling Saga.Lagerlöf's debut novel features the adventures of a deposed, defrocked minister, Gösta Berling. He is saved from freezing to death by the old Mistress of Ekeby manor, then he becomes one of the pensioners at the manor ? and one of those who take over the power to run the manor. Gösta Berling is a true leader, a charming personality who finds a lot of devoted followers among the pensioners and who becomes involved in a lot of wild, often bizarre adventures. We see realistic elements mingle with the supernatural at every step in the story ? we have not only events that could have really happened in the Swedish countryside, but fairy-tale happenings as well.The Story of Gösta Berling was written for a literary contest the author participated in and it… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Nobel-prize winner Selma Lagerlöf is most widely known for her Niels Holgerson stories, but her literary talent is present in her less famous works as well, such as The Story of Gösta Berling, also known as The Gösta Berling Saga.Lagerlöf's debut novel features the adventures of a deposed, defrocked minister, Gösta Berling. He is saved from freezing to death by the old Mistress of Ekeby manor, then he becomes one of the pensioners at the manor ? and one of those who take over the power to run the manor. Gösta Berling is a true leader, a charming personality who finds a lot of devoted followers among the pensioners and who becomes involved in a lot of wild, often bizarre adventures. We see realistic elements mingle with the supernatural at every step in the story ? we have not only events that could have really happened in the Swedish countryside, but fairy-tale happenings as well.The Story of Gösta Berling was written for a literary contest the author participated in and it… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Story of Gösta Berling I THE PRIEST At last the minister stood in the pulpit. The heads of the congregation were lifted. Well, there he finally was. There would be no default this Sunday, as on the last and on many other Sundays before. The minister was young, tall, slender, and strikingly handsome. With a helmet on his head, and girt with sword and shirt of mail, he could have been cut in marble and taken for an ideal of Grecian beauty. He had a poet’s deep eyes, and a general’s firm, rounded chin; everything about him was beautiful, noble, full of feeling, glowing with genius and spiritual life. The people in the church felt themselves strangely subdued to see him so. They were more used to see him come reeling out of the public house with his good friends, Beerencreutz, the Colonel with the thick, white moustaches, and the stalwart Captain Christian Bergh. He had drunk so deeply that he had not been able to attend to his duties for many weeks, and the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Story of Gösta Berling I THE PRIEST At last the minister stood in the pulpit. The heads of the congregation were lifted. Well, there he finally was. There would be no default this Sunday, as on the last and on many other Sundays before. The minister was young, tall, slender, and strikingly handsome. With a helmet on his head, and girt with sword and shirt of mail, he could have been cut in marble and taken for an ideal of Grecian beauty. He had a poet’s deep eyes, and a general’s firm, rounded chin; everything about him was beautiful, noble, full of feeling, glowing with genius and spiritual life. The people in the church felt themselves strangely subdued to see him so. They were more used to see him come reeling out of the public house with his good friends, Beerencreutz, the Colonel with the thick, white moustaches, and the stalwart Captain Christian Bergh. He had drunk so deeply that he had not been able to attend to his duties for many weeks, and the… Read More

Gay and Bird, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1901. No Edition Remarks. 473 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated green cloth covered boards with gilt and illustration pasted on. Pauline Bancroft Flatch (translator). Gilt applied to top edge of text block, remaining sides are rough cut. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. End papers are more notably foxed. Front free end paper has slits where something was previously mounted. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering has become dull.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Good+. 1910. "New Illustrated Edition" Later Printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [reading copy; shelfworn but intact, slight fraying to cloth at most corners, minor external soiling, spine lettering rubbed to near-unreadability; internally clean and all 29 plates present]. (B&W plates) Classic of Swedish literature, and the basis for Greta Garbo's most famous pre-Hollywood film, directed by Mauritz Stiller in 1924. .

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. 473p. A green cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Gilt spine text has grown dull with age and is hard to make out. Light wear at spine ends; tiny dent on side of front board. Tanning in gutter of pages 212-213. Otherwise clean and tight. Classic novel by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940) who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. English translation by Pauline Bancroft Flach.

Good HC, no DJ. Full red leather over boards, gilt letters and device; red and white decorated end papers. Clean, lightly scuffed covers; some rubbing at cover edges; spine heavily chipped at head; 1 inch chip missing at spine tail; tightly bound; owner bookplate on front pastedown; damp stain on front end papers at head and hinge; red bleed affects few preliminary leaves at head edge, otherwise bright, clean interior; one interior leaf badly cut in production and dog-eared at lower fore corner. Small 12mo, 473 pp.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1941. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good/good. yellow cloth, dust jacket, 473 pp, tears and staining to dj, owners note to front end paper Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.