Seven Brothers
by Kivi, Aleksis
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Helsinki, Finland: Tammi Publishers, 1959. Translated by Alex. Matson and illustrated by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Light wear and rubbing to dust jacket, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, small stain to closed edges at head, cloth covered boards in very good condition, pp clean and bright, unmarked, binding sound.. Cloth Covered Boards. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. 8vo.
Synopsis
Seven Brothers is the first and only novel by Aleksis Kivi, the national author of Finland, and it is widely regarded as the first significant novel written in Finnish and by a Finnish-speaking author. Published in 1870, Seven Brothers ended an era dominated by Swedish-speaking authors, most notable of which was J.L.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74731
- Title
- Seven Brothers
- Author
- Kivi, Aleksis
- Illustrator
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Tammi Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Helsinki, Finland
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
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About the Seller
Bookcase
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Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....