(Boston and Cambridge: Sever, Francis, & Co., 1870).

RARE FIRST EDITION. Bjornson won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1903.  The tale here presented is the story of a young peasant boy, to whom the world has always seemed a delightful dream, until he is awakened to his position in it by finding obstacles in the way of his love for a girl who is above him in birth.. Item #13878

Rare First edition in English. The True First American Edition. Portrait frontispiece and decorative chapter heads. 8vo, publisher s original brick red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover and with floral decorations and rules in blind on both covers. 120, 8 ads. A bright and very good copy with some of the typical foxing. Pastedowns and each freefly have remains of old glue or subsequent tears. Some light wear to extremities.