NMLP P-029139 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

The Saga of Gösta Berling (Gösta Berlings saga)

Selma Lagerlöf · Frithiof Hellberg (Stockholm) · 1891

There is no mass-market book-club edition of the Swedish first that is a common trap; the real confusion is between the 1891 first ("Originalupplagan") and the author-revised 1895 second edition ("Andra upplagan"), plus the many later Albert Bonniers förlag reprints (e.g., the 13th "billighetsupplaga," Bonnier, 1910) — all carry an edition statement and, from ~1900 on, the Bonnier imprint rather than Hellberg, so check for the 1891 Hellberg imprint and the two-part "Del 1 / Del 2" format with the map. On the English side, the frequently reprinted public-domain Tudeer and Flach texts (Dover 2003 and other Courier/Dover reissues, Standard Ebooks, and various print-on-demand reprints) are routinely mislisted as "first edition"; the true first English is the 1890s Chapman & Hall (Tudeer) or 1898 Gay & Bird / Little, Brown (Flach) printing, not any 20th- or the printed pricet-century reissue.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-029139 for "The Saga of Gösta Berling (Gösta Berlings saga)" by Selma Lagerlöf (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-029139, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).