Seven Brothers

Duluth, MN: Finnish Daily Publishing Co., by Arrangement with Coward-McCann, Inc, 1929. First American Edition. Finnish Daily Pub. Co. Issue. Octavo (19.75cm); green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and yellow on spine and front cover; decorative endpapers; dustjacket; [vi],[2],3-409,[1]pp. A few faint spots of foxing to upper board edges, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned and lightly dust-soiled, with a faint, shallow stain along the lower edge of the rear panel; Near Fine. Well-preserved American edition of the first significant novel in the Finnish language, originally (truncated) published in Finland in 1870. This issue bound contemporaneously with (but preceded by) the Coward-McCann issue, with the binding and dustjacket nearly identical, with a few minor variations. (Inventory #: 63271)