Published by Putnam & Co Ltd., 42 Great Russell Street, (1946), 1946
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.
Published by Putnam & Co Ltd., 42 Great Russell Street, (1946), 1946
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.
Published by Random House, New York City, New York, 1946
Seller: Navalperson Books and More from Bob, Ashland, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. "The Avenging Angels", by Pierre Andrezel, pseudonym for Karen Blixen. Originally published 1944 in Denmark in Danish. This is the First English Language Edition, 1946 from Random House, New York. NOT Ex-Library. No ISBN. A clean book in brown tweed/black/gilt-lettered and decorated hard boards, 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" x 304 clean pages of marvelous historical fiction. You may remember the movie Out of Africa, written by the same author from her days in British East Africa (Kenya today). Blixen admitted she wrote the novel as an allegory of young women surviving under Nazi rule. Published in Denmark 1944 in Danish and then in English in 1946 as this Random House work. A clean book. There is no dust jacket. The book itself shows no wear. Minimal whitening at the bottom spine end only. No dogears, No looseness, No mustiness, No smoke smell. No names, No other markings, No bookplates, NOT Ex-library. NOT remainder-marked. Photos available upon request. An historic World War II-era Occupation find.
Hardcover. 304p., very good reprint of the 1946 Random House edition in blue cloth boards and unclipped, lightly-worn dj. An entertainment written by Dinesen during the German Occupation and first published pseudonymously in the 1940s.