1931 ~ 1st Edition  First Printing in America

Hamsun is a master teller of tales from Norway, who brought us Pan, Hunger, The Wanderer, The Ring is Closed and others.

Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, 1931. This book is bound in a brown cloth cover with dark brown titling to the spine and cover and a brown illustration accented with blue on the cover center. The boards are in excellent condition with some rubbing, light discoloration and a spot or two, scuffs. Corners are lightly bumped with some wear-through. Previous owners inscription on FFEP. Inside pages are lightly toned and nicely intact by what appears to be the original string binding. They are clean and feature decorative rough-cut page edges. Top outside edges are tipped in a faded green. An excellent copy from this controversial Nobel Prize winning author!

Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen (1859 – 1952) was a Norwegian author. He was considered by Isaac Bashevis Singer to be the “father of modern literature”, and by King Haakon to be Norway’s soul.

In 1920, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, “for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil”. He insisted that the intricacies of the human mind ought to be the main object of modern literature, to describe the “whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow”. Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger.