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Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1930. Book. Illus. by Nielsen, Kay, Illustrator . Very Good+. Hardcover. Later printing.. Very clean and beautiful later printing in illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth boards with clean and bright large color paste-on illustration on cover (by Victor Candell) - no chipping or wear. Green lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying to cloth boards. Very slight fading to spine ends. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Clean illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Pages and edges are clean with green top-stained upper page edges. Gorgeous full-page color illustrations, including lovely frontispiece of a young woman gazing at her image in the water. Illustrated title page. 204 pages. Clean jacket has chipping at top and bottom spine edges, slight edge wear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A really nice copy of this scarce and wonderful book..

London: The Mitre Press, 1934. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. Hardcover book in original dust jacket, SIGNED by the author. Clean dark blue cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Bump to corner of rear board. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean endpapers - no previous owner names, writing or marks. Signed on back of front free endpaper: "Sincerely Yours, Hilvon W. Kjerschow Agersborg." Illustrated with black and white photographs, fold-out map in excellent condition. 177 pages with Glossary. Dust jacket has very light soiling and edge wear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

New York: Pantheon, 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition.. New York: Pantheon, 1970. Stated First American Edition. Fine/Fine. Clean black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean map-illustrated endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 383 pgs. Illustrated with photographs. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Sundman crystallizes the drama of one of the great mysteries of the Arctic: the attempt in 1897 by the Swedish scientist S. A. Andree to sail to the North Pole in a hydrogen gas balloon. Translated from the Swedish by Mary Sandbach. 8vo. Adventure..

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First American Edition, First printing.. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. First American Edition, First printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. "First Edition, 1995" on copyright page, in unclipped jacket. Clean green/gray boards with clean black spine, unchipped gold lettering on spine. Very light bumping to top spine edge, no fading or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 356 pgs. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Author's first novel, first published in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1988..

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, Fourth Printing.. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. Very clean brown cloth boards with golden brown cloth spine, red lettering on spine. No fraying or wear, very slight bump to one corner. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper. No other marks. 214 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is not price clipped, slight wear at corner tips and spine edges. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Nice clean book & dustjacket, signed by author -- gift quality. 8vo. Scandinavia..

Boston: Little Brown, 1943. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Third Printing.. Boston: Little Brown, 1943. Third Printing. Very Good+/Very Good. Clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering and horizontal line decoration on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper: "To Lillian Barnard (this with warm thanks for her excellent lecture at the Pen and Brush - Edita Morris - New York, October 24, 1943." 295 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has small chips at top and bottom spine edge, slight edge wear, small closed edge tear; author's photo on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A novel set in Sweden, beautifully written, scarce. 8vo. Fiction..

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1952. Stated First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Red cloth boards with gold stamped lettering on spine. Very clean except for small spot of darkening at front gutter and small spot of darkening at base of spine. No fraying, hint of very light surface wear at corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Previous owner name/address on front free endpaper; slight foxing to endpapers, with small brown tape offset to front and rear endpapers. 231 pgs. with index. Illustrated with photographs by the author throughout. Clean dustjacket has chipping at top and bottom spine edges, with top edge chip extending slightly into front panel. Jacket is not price clipped, has lovely photo of author on rear inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Monica Redlich's first book "Danish Delight" published in 1939… Read More

Cologne: Naumann & Gobel Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean large format hardcover book with photo illustrated cover. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, all pages and edges are clean. Clean bright yellow endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Lavishly illustrated with full color photographs, all text in English. 160 pages with Index. .

Boston - New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1937. Book. Illus. by Pitz, Henry. Near Fine. Hardcover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).. Boston - New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1937. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Near Fine/Near Fine. Pitz, Henry. Clean brown clothboards with black lettering on front and spine and black illustration on front bottom right corner. Clean illustrated endpapers; no names, writing or marks. No bumping or wear to edges. Pages are clean and crisp with no writing. Dustjacket is bright and clean, unchipped, two very short closed edge tears. 226 pgs. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Children's..

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1897. Book. Good. Hardcover. Scarce book on author's travels through Finland in the 19th century. Hardcover book illustrated with wonderful black and white photographs. Red cloth boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover and spine. Spots of wear to corner tips, spine corners/ends. Surface wear to spine edges. Label on lower front cover from "Mudie's Select Library, New Oxford Street, London." No text block edge markings; gilt top edges. Black endpapers (fron endpapers have some scrapes near hinge area; small book ticket from Foyle's bookshop on Charing Cross in London. Light foxing to text pages - all photographic plates clean and bright. Fold-out map at rear of book in good condition. 366 pages with Index..