HAMSUN, Knut.
Ny Jord. Roman.
Copenhagen, P. G. Philipsens Forlag, 1893.
8vo, pp. 460, light stain to inner margin of title-page; a very good copy in contemporary half sheep.
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Ny Jord. Roman.
First edition of Shallow Soil, an early novel by the Norwegian nobel prize-winning author. Hamsun himself described the novel as being ‘about Norwegian youth’, ‘full of symbolism, but so little Ibsenish, I hope, that it can be understood.’