• For Your Consideration:
• A First Edition HARDCOVER, published in 1912 by Stewart & Kidd Company (of Cincinnati):
• “LUCKY PEHR: A Drama in Five Acts”
• BY AUGUST STRINGBERG
• ABOUT THIS TITLE:
• “Though Swedish author AUGUST STRINDBERG produced significant works in fields ranging from memoir to observations of the natural world, he is best remembered as a groundbreaking dramatist whose plays were far ahead of their time and helped to usher in a new era of literature. The five-act drama LUCKY PEHR, set in the Middle Ages, highlights the true extent of STRINDBERG’s envelope-pushing creative genius.”
—BARNES & NOBLE
• “LUCKY PEHR is said to be to Sweden what RIP VAN WINKLE is to America. In this play STRINDBERG is no longer the gloomy misanthrope pouring his disillusionment upon the world, but a light-hearted teller of fairy tales.”
—AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS (1913)
• “This brainchild of an alleged misanthrope—although he often denied it—quickly clarifies that happiness isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. [PEHR’s] magic ring, which guarantees all his wishes are granted, proves the theory, ‘When you get there, there is no there there.’ Immense wealth, jewels, gold, palaces, and castles are as copious as false friends, who quickly disappear when abundance runs out. Public honor and glory are as lacking in honor and glory as absolute power is powerless in the face of governmental corruption, graft, intolerance, and hypocrisy. And you can’t love someone unless you stop loving yourself. If there’s a moral to this story, it is that everything has a moral; there are lessons to be learned at every crossroads.”
—MADELEINE SHANER, BACKSTAGE
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• For other details about this book, please see below.
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TITLE: “LUCKY PEHR: A Drama in Five Acts”
AUTHOR: AUGUST STRINDBERG
TRANSLATOR: VELMA SWANSTON HOWARD
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Stewart & Kidd Company (Cincinnati), 1912
EDITION: First US Edition, First Printing*
*RE: The publication date (1912) match on both Copyright & Title Pages—with no later printings listed.
NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy NOR a book-club edition.
PAGES: 181
ISBN: N/A (Pre-ISBN)
CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD MINUS.
(No Dust Jacket.) Book has a slight slant (less than 5%). Boards are mostly clean but scuffed. Bottom corner of front is chipped; other corners are rubbed/scuffed. Bottom edges are scuffed as are the hinges on each side of the spine. There is lighter scuffing on the other edges (which have a few dings). Spine is tight with chipped tips. Lettering on spine & front are mostly bright. Top text-block edge is gilt but clean; the other two (untrimmed) edges are age-toned but clean. At the bottom of the gutter is a quarter-inch (open) cut. At the top of the front free endpaper is a light but big stain, which touches, lightly, the gutter & inside cover. This stain can be seen, to a lessening degree, on the next four pages at top (until disappearing). At the bottom of the inside back cover is a small, vintage bookstore sticker (from Paul Edler & Co. of San Francisco). All the pages are moderately age-toned, but also bright & clean—with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. Despite the flaws mentioned above, this copy might be unread.
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