About this title: One afternoon Akka from Kebnekaise and her flock alighted on the shore of a forest lake. Spring was backward -- as it always is in the mountain districts. Ice covered all the lake save a narrow strip next the land. The geese at once plunged into the water to bathe and hunt for food. In the morning Nils Holgersson had dropped one of his wooden shoes, so he went down by the elms and birches that grew along the shore, to look for something to bind around his foot. The boy walked quite a distance before he found anything that he could use. He glanced about nervously, for he did not fancy being in ...
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Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Edition: 1st ed thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd
Date Published: 1953
Description: Illus by H. Baumhauer. Very good book. A continuation of the Swedish classic for children. 4 full pg. colour illustrations. Beige/green illustrated cloth, with matching endpapers. Children's Illustrated Classics. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
Date Published: 1957
ISBN-13:9780460050203ISBN:0460050206
Description: Baumhauer, Hans. Good in Good jacket. Verging on VGC. DJ has a little light wear-otherwise a clean, tight copy. DIspatch within 24hrs from the UK. read more
Edition: 1st UK ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dent, London
Date Published: 1953
Description: VG hardback in Good price-clipped dustjacket. Illus by H. Baumhauer. Dust jacket a little edge-worn with faded spine. The Children's Illustrated Classics series: revised and slightly abridged from the US edition. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1927
Description: Good with no dust jacket. Ex-library with typical markings. Call numbers on spine; library labels partially removed from rear end papers. Spine extremities & corners bumped and rubbed. Pages age-toned with occassional staining; short closed tears in lower edge of several pages.; 339 pages; Ex-Library. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: WILDSIDE PR
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781592243204ISBN:1592243207
Description: New. One afternoon Akka from Kebnekaise and her flock alighted on the shore of a forest lake. Spring was backward--as it always is in the mountain districts. Ice covered all the lake save a narrow strip next the land. The geese at once plunged into the... read more
Edition: Repirnt
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Co, London
Date Published: 1957
Description: Hans Baumhauer. Very Good in Very Good jacket. 12 vo. Dj w/unclipped price; illustrated end papers; colored frontis; 246 clean, unmarked pages. Owner's insc. A lovely edition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dent, London
Date Published: 1953
Description: 1st UK edition, revised, slightly abridged; From the Children's illustrated Classics Series. Hardback; Very good/ No dj; 246pp with coloured frontis. plus delightful black/white illustrations by H. Baumhauer; Translated from the Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard. Pale blue decorated covers with red lettering. The adventure of Nils, a boy who turns into an elf. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: LULU PR
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781409923565ISBN:1409923568
Description: New. Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationally for her children's story The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1906-07) she was awarded the Nobel Prize i... read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co., New York
Date Published: 1911
Description: Heiberg, Astri. Fine. No Jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. x-library book with some of the usual flaws including a library binding, very little wear at all, a great book, ....Extra Postage... read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: J.M. Dent, London
Date Published: 1963/70
Description: Near Fine / VG in VG jacket. Clean, tight, unmarked. Corners square. Dj priced in pounds sterling. 246 pages. Drawings and color illustrations by Hans Baumhauer. Number 20 in the Dent Children's Illustrated Classics series. Dj faded spine, but no nicks or tears. ZSBH A9409. read more
Edition: 1957 Prtg
Binding: Patterned Cloth
Publisher: Dent, London
Date Published: 1953
Description: H Baumhauer w/Alexander H Williamson (Dj, Eps & Covers) Very Good. Very Good Dj. 12mo. In this sequel to "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils", we follow more exploits of the naughty Swedish boy who was turned into an elf. Translated from Swedish; 4 color plates & b&w drawings by Baumhauer. Originally written in 1907, Lagerlof won the NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE in 1909. Slight foxing on the half-title page-title page; dust jacket has one short tear, a little wear to the spine ends & corners. OUT ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: KESSINGER PUB LLC
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781417990429ISBN:1417990422
Description: New. One afternoon Akka from Kebnekaise and her flock alighted on the shore of a forest lake. Spring was backward--as it always is in the mountain districts. Ice covered all the lake save a narrow strip next the land. The geese at once plunged into the... read more
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