|
LOT 750:
more...
|
|
|
Loading picture...
|
Sold for: €460
Start price:
€
400
Estimated price :
€400 - €500
Buyer's Premium: 25.5%
VAT: 17%
On commission only
Users from foreign countries may be exempted from tax payments, according to the relevant tax regulations
|
LAGERLOF SELMA: (1858-1940) Swedish Author. Nobel prize in Literature in 1909. The first female writer awarded with the Nobel. Rare A.L., one page, oblong 4to, Marbacka, 3rd March 1930, to Henri Corbiere, in French. Lagerlof responds to her correspondent´s questionnaire to the verso, about her debuts, her initial incomes, her major works, and which one she considers the most important one, and states in part `Ce qui a été difficile c´était de trouver une manière juste de composer… a l ´époque de mon début je fus professeur a mon lycée de jeunes filles…´ (“What was difficult was to find a fair way to compose… at the time of my debut I was a teacher at my school for young girls..”) Further and responding to the question of which work made her known to the readers, Lagerlof answers `Gosha Berling´, and to the last question about which one of her works she considers the best, Lagerlof responds `I do not wish to respond to that question´. Small overall minor age toning, otherwise G to VG
Gosta Berling´s Saga (1891) was Lagerlof´s debut novel. It was made into a silent film in 1924 starring Greta Garbo.
