Description
The author’s presentation edition of Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie by Ole Edvart Rølvaag, with an inscription by Rølvaag and an additional signature by author and translator, Lincoln Colcord.
Octavo, xxii, 465pp, [1]. Publisher’s illustrated olive cloth. Stated “First Edition / C-B” on the copyright page. Housed in the publisher’s issued slipcase, title label on side panel with a matching limitation number, light shelf and edge wear.
From a limited edition of 100 copies, this being number 2.
Inscribed by the author on the limitation page: “In memory of the very delightful dinner given the author by Doctor and Mrs. Leonard Wells. O.E. Rolvaag / Lincoln Colcord.” Additional signatures on the dedication leaf by the following individuals, likely dinner guests: F.E. Kenaston, Phillip Osgood, J.G. Dillon and W. Scott Woodworth.
Giants in the Earth follows Norwegian immigrant homesteaders on the Dakota prairie and remains Rølvaag’s best-known work. The novel was first published in Norwegian in two volumes before appearing in this English-language edition in 1927. It was followed by Peder Victorious (1929) and Their Fathers’ God (1931).
