Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hard Back First American Printing. Hardcover Book As

Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hard Back First American Printing. Hardcover Book As New with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Translated from the Danish by Barbara Haveland. Binding of pale yellow cloth, very clean, unmarked, solid book. Jacket is lightly wrinkled on the upper edge, clean and unmarked, not clipped. Set at a provincial Danish seaside resort in 1912 where twelve-year old Malte, a poor 12-year old boy from the city is sent to the Danish coast to be a summer boy at a seaside resort and finds a coffin of a young sailor on the shore. He has some strange experiences, some realistic and sometimes in the realm of fantasy. I B Michael is one of Denmark's foremost writers. 306 pages. 8.5 x 6 inches. Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1999.