IBSEN, HENRIK — Peer Gynt (Everyman's Library #747)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1950. Hardcover. ISBN: 0922884005. A 1950 reprint of the 1921 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition presenting the best-known play by Norway's Henrik Ibsen. In this play, presented in verse, the title character travels from Norway to North Africa and back. In his introduction, translator R. Farquharson Sharp describes the play as being ".a poetic fantasy, and only incidentally a satire." An entry in Everyman's Library Biography series. EL #747. --- In Everyman's Library binding style 3 with full green cloth-covered boards and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover and brown topstain. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With red penciled underlinings to introduction, prior owner's signature to front free endpaper and other prior owners' bookplate affixed to front paste-down, else a tightly-bound, unmarked copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xiv, 242 pages. Very Good- with no dust jacket .