Winter's Tales
(New York): Random House, (1942).
Price: $65.00
Hardcover. First edition. Endpapers and dustwrapper illustrated by George Salter. Very good with light soiling to cloth cover, stamp on half-title page in very good price-clipped dustwrapper with edgewear. Eleven stories including: The Sailor-Boy's Tale; The Young Man With the Carnation; The Pearls; The Invincible Slave-Owners; The Heroine; The Dreaming Child; Alkmene; The Fish; Peter and Rosa; Sorrow-Acre; A Consolatory Tale.
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Isak Dinesen
birth name: Karen Christence Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke
born: 4/17/1885
died: 9/7/1962
nationality: Denmark
Biography
Danish writer whose finely crafted stories, set in the past and pervaded with an aura of supernaturalism, incorporate the thems of eros and dreams. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
She is also known for her non-fiction memoir, Out of Africa.more
She is also known for her non-fiction memoir, Out of Africa.more