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PEER GYNT
by IBSEN, Henrik
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Spine a little sunned. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase
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About This Item
Oslo: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Hardcover. Spine a little sunned. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase. Per Krough. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in quarter mustard-color buckram with green and white paper sides printed from a design by Per Krough. Translated by William and Charles Archer. Created, printed, and bound in Norway. Copy #844 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with drawings and color plates by Per Krough and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
Synopsis
Henrik Ibsen was born of well-to-do parents at Skien, a small Norwegian coastal town, on March 20, 1828. In 1836 his father went bankrupt, and the family was reduced to near poverty. At the age of fifteen, he was apprenticed to an apothecary in Grimstad. In 1850 Ibsen ventured to Christiania — present-day Oslo — as a student, with the hope of becoming a doctor. On the strength of his first two plays he was appointed “theater-poet” to the new Bergen National Theater, where he wrote five conventional romantic and historical dramas and absorbed the elements of his craft. In 1857 he was called to the directorship of the financially unsound Christiania Norwegian Theater, which failed in 1862. In 1864, exhausted and enraged by the frustration of his efforts toward a national drama and theater, he quit Norway for what became twenty-seven years of voluntary exile abroad. In Italy he wrote the volcanic Brand (1866), which made his reputation and secured him a poet’s stipend from the government. Its companion piece, the phantasmagoric Peer Gynt , followed in 1867, then the immense double play, Emperor and Galilean (1873), expressing his philosophy of civilization. Meanwhile, having moved to Germany, Ibsen had been searching for a new style. With The Pillars of Society he found it; this became the first of twelve plays, appearing at two-year intervals, that confirmed his international standing as the foremost dramatist of his age. In 1900 Ibsen suffered the first of several strokes that incapacitated him. He died in Oslo on May 23, 1906.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018339
- Title
- PEER GYNT
- Author
- IBSEN, Henrik
- Illustrator
- Per Krough
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Spine a little sunned. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- Oslo
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Signed, Illustrated Books, Limited Editions Club, Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Literature, Per Krough, Drama, 19th Century Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century Literature;
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Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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- Colophon
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- Buckram
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