‎"BLIXEN, KAREN.‎
‎Daguerreotypier.‎

‎København, Gyldendal, 1951. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. With author's presentation to half-title: ""Karen Blixen / med venlig / Hilsen. / April 1953"". (i.e. Karen Blixen / With kind / regards / April 1953). Light wear to spine-ends and inner front hinge partly split. Last half of bookblock with dampstain to upper inner margin. 76, (1) pp. ‎

Reference : 62139

‎Presentation-copy of the first edition of Blixen's daguerreotypes. ""Through these daguerreotypes we begin to understand other periods, the renunciations of World War I, the purpose of houses and mansions, of ritual ceremonials, such as tatooing. We are given a fresh and vivid view of the women's movement . . . which urges that what our 'small society' needs beyond human beings who have demonstrated what they can do, is people who are. 'Indeed, our own time,' she wrote in 1953, 'can be said to need a revision from doing to being.' She demonstrated it in her own work and craft, with courage and with dignity. This collection is as real as a gallery of old daguerreotypes, moving and unfaded. The work, as Hannah Arendt says, of a wise woman."" (Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times)‎