The Mistress of Husaby by Sigrid Undset [FIRST EDITION • FOURTH PRINTING] 1928 • Grosset & Dunlap

The Mistress of Husaby by Sigrid Undset  FIRST EDITION • FOURTH PRINTING [1928] GROSSET & DUNLAP Antique hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. Dust jacket shows some visible shelf and rub wear; a bit of fraying to edges; but is overall in tact and attractive.  Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector! Book itself is excellent; clean tight purple boards.  *signature of orig owner on front flyleaf. Reads beautifully with tanning to pages. The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway has kept its hold on generations of readers, and the heroine, Kristin—beautiful, strong-willed, and passionate—stands with the world's great literary figures. Volume 11, The Mistress of Husaby, tells of Kristin's troubled and eventful married life on the great estate of Husaby