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Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint. Reprint of the first American edition. Signed by Knut Hamsun on the front free endpaper and inscribed to the recipient. xiii, [1], 263 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with decorative stamping in orange and blue, orange topstain. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities, light toning to contents. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel, light foxing and soiling, and moderate rubbing and edgewear. A rare signed copy of Knut Hamsun's groundbreaking modernist novel about a young man starving in Oslo. Alfred A. Knopf published the first American edition in 1920, the year Hamsun won the Nobel Prize for Literature and thirty years after Hunger was published in Norway. Grosset and Dunlap reprinted the book for its attractively designed "Novels of Distinction" series, with a striking dust jacket by Alfred Skrenda dated 1929. The copyright page was taken from the ninth printing of the Knopf edition.