Thorbergur Thordarson (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

Condition: good. This book is in good condition. The cover has minor creases or bends. The binding is tight and pages are intact. Some pages may have writing or highlighting.

hardcover. Condition: Good. DUST JACKET. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

This is a tale of youth in search of the unattainable woman, created by of one of IcelandÆs leading men of letters. Romanticism and Realism go hand in hand, and gentle parody joins with relentless self-examination, in this exceptional writing. , English, Year1967, Illust. B/W, Illust. Color, ISBN , Code 4037. Hardbound with Jacket, Slightly worn book jackets, Pages 119, Size 6öx 9ö. …

Softcover. Condition: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. "And the longer I compared my logical thoughts on the annihilation of love to my memories of two snow-white, silky-soft hands . the more palpable was the conviction in my heart that my hands would be totally incapable of caressing the neck of any other woman but hers." ICELANDIC NOBILITY relates how Thordarson falls in love with a fellow lodger during the winter of 1911-12. Too shy and awkward to court her then, he gets a labouring job in her home fjord the following summer to pursue his suit with her there. After a comical and disastrous attempt to woo his beloved, however, he flees north to the herring wharfs of northern Iceland, where he meets an array of extraordinary, colourful characters from whom he learns a great deal about the realities of love, life, sex and poetry. In September he sets sail for home, but leaves the ship in the far north of the Westfjords and embarks on the most famous walk in Icelandic literature (over 300 km), in order to 'drop in' on his beloved on his way south. Will she be at home? How will she receive him? Will he be more adept at courting her this time? And is he indeed, telling us the whole truth.…

Condition: Near Fine. New York 1967 first edition thus.Twayne and American-Scandinavian Foundation. Translated from the Icelandic by Kenneth Chapman. Book first published in Iceland in 1938 "the central portion of a larger autobiographical work." Hardcover. Octavo, 120pp., cloth. Near Fine, uneven fading of end papers, in Near Fine DJ light rubbing on dj, price not clipped. No ownership marks.…

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. second printing 2015. Minor shelf wear to wraps & edges of text block. Text is unmarked, spine uncreased, corners sharp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveranderung. ,Kameny mluvi" jsou zivotopisnym vypravenim o autorove detstvi v zapadlem koutu jizniho Islandu, plastickym obrazem zpusobu zivota, jaky se na Islandu zachovaval po cela staleti, od stredoveku az do pocatku naseho stoleti.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Twayne Publishers New York 1967, 1967. 1st edition hardback with dust jacket Near Fine octavo. 119pp., notes, Library of Scandinavian Literature, vol. 1.

8vo, 12mo, pp. 257, [1]; text in Icelandic; brown pictorial boards, edges speckled; award gift inscription on free endpaper; near fine, dust jacket with closed tears and light soiling.

Icelandic Literature 1st. ed.not read or opened. new. d.j. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.…

8°, 314 Seiten. Orig.Pappband mit Lesebändchen und OSU. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. - Geing bestoßen. Gewicht (Gramm): 300.

8vo, pp. 93, [1]; publisher's blue cloth; dustjacket in black and purple; a very good copy in a good jacket (edges worn); manuscript correction (by Karlsson?) on p. 92; bookplate of D.G. Bridson.First edition in English, comprising selected portions of Thórdarson's autobiographical Íslenskur aðall (1938), one of the few translations of his work into English; a presentation copy from the editor: 'To Mr Geoffrey Bridson in Iceland, June 26, 1963. With best regards Kristján Karlsson'. In the summer of 1963 Bridson recreated William Morris's journey to Iceland for a radio programme first broadcast on 4 December: 'The charred rafters of Nja l's old steading at Bergtho rsva l seemed as unlikely to come upon as the cakes burnt by King Alfred, yet there they were to examine' (Prospero and Ariel). His own impressions of the country were broadcast as 'Talking of Iceland' on 16 Feb 1964, in which he discussed the changes since his last visit he had been there just shortly before the start of World War II, and in 1940 had broadcast a long feature about the country's discovery and its ancient democracy.…

Hardcover. Condition: gut. 2004. Kameny mluví In deutscher Sprache. pages.