NMLP P-045507 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Growth of the Soil

Knut Hamsun · Gyldendal (Gyldendalske Boghandel), Kristiania · 1917

The first edition in English, translated by W. W. Worster, was published by Gyldendal in London in 1920 (dated 27 April 1920) as a single octavo volume in grass-green cloth/boards lettered in black, 406 pp.; this London 1920 printing is the true first in English and precedes the first American

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-045507 for "Growth of the Soil" by Knut Hamsun (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045507, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).