Hedda Gabler. Dramo en kvar aktoj Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1890.
First edition.
Twelvemo. [vi], 1-236, [2, blank] pp. In the scarce publisher’s orange-red cloth, front cover and spine elaborately and beautifully stamped and paneled in black and gilt, rear cover stamped in blind. Floral patterned end-papers. Spine very mildly sunned, but a superb copy, rarely seen in this condition.
First edition (text in the original Danish). Ibsen said about Hedda Gabler, “...it was not my desire to deal in this play with so-called problems. What I principally wanted to do was to depict human beings, human emotions, and human destinies, upon a groundwork of certain of the social conditions and principles of the present day.”
Hedda Gabler was not well received (as real art seldom is) when first brought to the stage in Germany. The Danish critic George Brandes found her [character] “a true type of degeneration” incapable “of yielding herself, body and soul, to the man she loves.”
PMM, 375
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3049
$
3,000