August Weltumsegler

Munchen: Albert Langen, 1930.

Price: $20.00

Hardcover. First edition. 1. bis 30 Tausend. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth string bookmarker. Contemporary owner's inscription on front fly, pages age-toned, spine cocked, else very good. Text in German.

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Item #331923 August Weltumsegler. Knut HAMSUN.

Knut Hamsun
birth name: Knut Pederson
born: 8/4/1859
died: 2/19/1952
nationality: Norway

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Norwegian novelist, drmatist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize (1920). A leader of the Neoromantic revolt at the turn of the century, he rescued the novel from a tendency toward excessive naturalism. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore