THE GIRL FROM THE MARSH CROFT ... Translated from the Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1-3] 4-277 [278-280: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original olive green cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition in English. This collection includes "The Legend of the Christmas Rose," Lagerlof's most famous religious fable. Another supernatural tale is "The Musician," which features a water sprite. "The Story of a Story" is an allegory about the fate of a work of fiction. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1897), p. 556. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1978; 1992). Private owner's bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Gold stamping on spine panel dull, else a very good copy. (#117609).

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"Published May, 1910" on copyright page.