LAGERLÖF, Selma. Nils Holgerssons underbara Resa genom Sverige … första [–andra Banddet].

£4,500 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

BY THE FIRST FEMALE NOBEL LAUREATE FOR LITERATURE LAGERLÖF, Selma (author). Nils Holgerssons Underbara Resa Genom Sverige. Forsta Bandet [and] Andra Bandet. [The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. First and Second Series]. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag. 1906 and 1907. 8vo.; 2 volumes; publisher's pictorial green wrappers, top edges rough, others untrimmed; pp. [iv], [1]-237; [iv], [1]-486 + [ii]; with photographic plates printed in half-tones throughout both books; very good copies, both volumes priced to the spine (Haft 3:50; Inb. 5 and Haft 3:50 and 7); the first volume with external rubbing and small edge wear, toning to spine with some vertical creasing, small marking and abrasions and irregularly-shaped paper-loss to heel to a maximum depth of 3cm, internally very clean and crisp throughout, and uninscribed; volume two with some overall rubbing and small edge and corner wear, toning and vertical creasing to spine and chipping to spine ends to a maximum depth of 1cm at head, internally very good, sound, and clean throughout, and uninscribed; genuinely rare in original wrappers, remarkably so in this condition, and known in only a handful of copies. First editions, in Swedish, as published. The English translation, published in two volumes as The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and Further Adventures of Nils appeared in 1907 and 1911. This Swedish work was issued in first edition simultaneously in wrappers and in cloth, as referenced by the pair of printed prices to the spines

• Binding: Hardcover

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