Sult Hunger

by Knut Hamsun

$1,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Copenhagen: P. G. Philipsens Forlag, 1890. First edition of one of the earliest modernist novels, in the original Norwegian language. Bound in half leather over marbled boards with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with sunning to spine and rubbing to binding. Bookplate to front pastedown, previous owner name to front free endpaper, another owner name and date to title page, foxing and browning to pages, and small ink

• Binding: Leather

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