8vo. (Very light spotting to title page.) Original pictorial grey cloth (rubbing to spine).

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Widely considered to be one of the first "psychological" novels and a precursor to literary trends of the 20th century which would inspire the works of Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, and Thomas Mann, Hunger was first published in 1890 as Sult. In 1899 Hamsun's friend and former lover, noted feminist author and playwright Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright, translated it into English for the first time, significantly opening Hamsun's work up to a wider audience. Hamsun went on to publish an additional twenty works over a career spanning seven decades and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920.