Last Tales
New York: Random House:, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
Grey cloth over boards with gold lettering and black design on the front and on the spine. Top page edges are tinted red. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with modest sun-darkening on the spine. The Dust Jacket is with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has minimal shelf handling and a spine a shade lighter from the sun. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; [i-vi] [1-3] 4-341, [4 blank pp.] [346, author bio] First Edition, First Printing (American)
“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.” ― Isak Dinesen
Background Information:
The publisher, on the dust jacket flap, portrays this anthology as one in which Dinesen "again casts her magical spell in prose and...offers twelve tales in which fantasy and reality are harmoniously.”
Isak Dinesen, pseudonym for the Baroness Karen Blixen, was a Danish writer who wrote mainly in English and early on rejected bourgeois Danish society in favor of studying art in Copenhagen, Paris, and Rome.
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