First edition of Dinesen's first and perhaps greatest collection of tales.
Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Price: $600.00
"Perhaps in a hundred years people will be reading about me, and about my sadness tonight, and think it only entertaining, if even that."
"Whatever you cling to will either patronize you or get tired of you," says one of the wicked and perceptive old women in these stories, which is true; and for that reason it is not prudent to praise SEVEN GOTHIC TALES as richly as it deserves or to admire its author too unreservedly. A reader ought to withhold some mysteries or the greatest of books may get tired of them. Nevertheless, SEVEN GOTHIC TALES is assuredly one of the most important gothic collections of the 20th century. An attractive copy of the true first edition, preceding not only the UK edition, but — because she wrote the book in English — even the Danish.
Read more: Bruce, Essays on Isak Dinesen and A.E. Housman.
First printing. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. 8'' x 5.5''. Original half red cloth over beige gilt title boards. In original unclipped ($2.50) pictorial jacket by F.J. Buttera. Red topstain. xiv, 420, [2] pages. Jacket toned with some minor chipping. Some toning to extremities of boards. Former owner bookplate to front pastedown. Some offsetting to front endpaper. Else clean and sound.
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