First-ever translation into English of the legendary book of poetry “BLOD” written by the Danish art historian and publisher R. Broby-Johansen in 1922, for which publication he was sentenced to jail for its sexual immorality: In vivid and gory details, the poems depict the red-light district of Copenhagen’s underbelly. In…
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. Royal8vo. Original red cloth with overall well preserved jacket. This copy was Børge Houmann’s copy (not signed). Houmann, a prominent Danish communist and resistance fighter, was working a translation of Joyce’s novel Ulysses, but tragically could not find the translation after the War. The…
Første danske udgave af “Den tabte himmel” i det sølvfarvede omslag. Udgivet hos forlaget Rhodos, 1970. 140 pp. Hft. Flot eksemplar. Bogdesign ved Michael Malling.