The Emigrants

by Moberg, Vilhelm

2nd ptg

Price: $12.00
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951 Light green cloth, illustrated front board, top edge dyed yellow, xv, 366 pp. Top edge spotted, else VG, boards browned near edges, leaning, corners bumped. DJ soiled, chipped, worn, and browned, price clipped; in Brodart archival cover. Novel of Swedish emigants in 1850, and why they left Sweden. The basis for a movie in the 1970s. By "one of the Swedes left behind by the great wave of migration in the [19th] century.... As a boy in Sweden he read letters from America, looked at pictures from America, read American newspapers. ...in America, anyone could call the President himself 'thou,' and not take off his cap unless he wished." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . G/G. 21½ X 14½ cm.

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