The Summer Book
by Jansson, Tove
Tove Jansson (1914–2001) was born in Helsinki into Finland’s Swedish-speaking minority. Her father was a sculptor and her mother a graphic designer and illustrator. Winters were spent in the family’s art-filled studio and summers in a fisherman’s cottage on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, a setting that would later figure in Jansson’s writing for adults and children. Jansson loved books as a child, and set out from an early age to be an artist; her first illustration was published when she was fifteen years old; four years later a picture book appeared under a pseudonym. After attending art schools in both Stockholm and Paris, she returned to Helsinki, where in 1940s and ’50s she won acclaim for her paintings and murals. From 1929 until 1953 Jansson drew humorous illustrations and political cartoons for the left-leaning anti-Fascist Finnish-Swedish magazine Garm, and it was there that what was to become Jansson’s most famous creation, Moomintroll, a hippopotamus-like character with a dreamy disposition, made his first appearance. Jansson went on to write about the adventures of Moomintroll, the Moomin family, and their curious friends in a long-running comic strip and in a series of books for children that have been translated throughout the world, inspiring films, several television series, an opera, and theme parks in Finland and Japan. Jansson also wrote novels and short stories for adults, of which Sculptor’s Daughter, The Summer Book, Sun City, The Winter Book, and Fair Play have been translated into English. In 1994 she was awarded the Prize of the Swedish Academy. Tove Jansson and her companion, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä, continued to live part-time in a cottage on the remote outer edge of the Finnish archipelago until 1991. Kathryn Davis has received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of many novels, including Labrador, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Hell, The Walking Tour, The Thin Place, and Versailles. In 2006 she received the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis and lives in Vermont.
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New York: Pantheon Books, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. This 1975 1st American Edition/1st Printing of the Finnish novel in translation is in Fine/VeryGood condition. The hardback looks unread but for a removed first owner signature on the FFEP. The dustjacket is not price-clipped. It retains all its lettering and colors but… Read more about this item Item Price
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Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal,
Foreword by Esther Freud
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A beautiful collection of summer vignettes and the tender relationship between grandmother and granddaughter
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172 pages, 200mm x 132mm x 14mm
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NY, 1974, 1stUS, Pantheon. Cloth, 5½x8½, 166p, DW. A charming story about a child and her grandmother on a lonely island in the Baltic.
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Hutchinson, UK, 1975. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Book Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal. Size: 12mo (7 to 8 inches). Item Type: Book. Binding still very good , slightly cocked. Moderate uniform browning. Dust jacket: small tears at edges, some foxing inside and out. Edges slightly foxed. Nick at bottom of front board.… Read more about this item Item Price
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London United Kingdom: Sort Of Books, 2003. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition third printing as octavo paperback card covers with flaps 172 pp. Near Fine condition. No inscriptions
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Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution | 2003 | Mass Market Paperback | 176 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Bookseller Ray says "Genre defying, philosophical,a sweet and lovely affirmation of life. Jansson brings a gentle creativity into the world that we all need." An elderly artist and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Random House Childrens Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0394492498 . Rare First American Edition. English Edition. This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. Dustjacket does have some shelfwear. Inside pages are clean. ; 166 pages . Item Price
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London: Sort of Books, 2003 8vo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed & creased); pp. 172, with illustrations. A near fine copy.. Reprint. Soft Cover. F-. Item Price
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NYRB Classics, 2008. Very Good softcover translated from Swedish by Thomas Teal, introduction by Kathryn Davis . Trade Paperback. Very Good. Item Price
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