The Fish Can Sing

First UK paperback edition. Translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson. Covers and leaves age-toned; spine with some shallow vertical creases; binding square and tight. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author to Anne Francis, author of a biography of the British film and TV producer Julian Wintle (1913-1980): “Anne Francis, a souvenir of Halldor Laxness”. *** A scarce signed presentation copy of Halldor Laxness’s celebrated novel, originally published in Iceland in 1957 shortly after winning the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.