Morning of Life, Kristmann Gudmundsson, Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York, 1936

Morning of Life by Kristmann Guðmundsson is a novel set against the rugged backdrop of Icelandic life, drawing on a landscape and culture shaped by its Viking past. First published in English in 1936, it explores themes of love, jealousy and personal conflict within a small, close-knit community.

Morning of Life, by Kristmann Gudmundsson. Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier. Cover illustration/frontispiece by Rockwell Kent.

Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York. Stated first edition, 1936.

A very good blue cloth hardback with attractive gilt design to spine and blind stamped emblem to front cover. Light wear. With original dustjacket, with a few nibbles and some worn extremities, but still in good condition. Top corner of inside front flap is clipped. Spine is toned. Jacket now housed in protective, clear, removable plastic.

Text is in near fine condition - bright and clean throughout. Some mild offsetting to endpapers.

Text in English.

Prelims + 318pp.

Dimensions: approx 202mm high x 153mm wide x 38mm deep.
Weight: approx 628g (unpacked)