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The Burning Bush
by Undset, Sigrid
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Cassell and Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1932). First Edition. Hardcover. Spine very faded. Some fading to margins of boards. Previous owner's signature. A few spots of foxing. With front flap only of the dust-jacket.; First English edition. 396 pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 140mm. A novel. Text in English, translated from the Norwegian by Arthur G. Chater. "This is the second volume of Sigrdi Undset's trilogy of modern Norwegian life that began with 'The Wild Orchid.' Paul Selmer has settled down to married life and the probems that follow an unwise marriage. We see the development in soul and nature of a strong, impulsive man who cannot be bound by the fetters of middle-class conventionality, yet, bursting them asunder, can only find his freedom in Faith." - from blurb on front flap of dust-jacket. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20469
- Title
- The Burning Bush
- Author
- Undset, Sigrid
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1932)
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- G
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- Jacket
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