CHRISTMAS EVE AT FINNSTAD. Translated from the Swedish ...

by Margaret Sperry by Verner von Heidenstam

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Stockholm: Ivar Haeggstroms Boktryckeri A. B., 1950. . Octavo, pp. 1-6 7-24 25 26-28: blank note: last leaf is a blank , original decorated wrappers printed in black, red and yellow, sewn. First edition of this translation. A short, engaging Christmas fantasy that blends Scandinavian pagan lore with the widespread Christian tradition that on every Christmas eve the power of speech is granted to animals to commemorate

• Binding: Wrappers

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