First Edition Books, Seven Gothic Tales, By Isak Dinesen, The Modern Library, Random House, New retailer York, 1934 antique books-gothic books

Seven Gothic Tales, By Isak Dinesen, 1st Thus Edition, The Modern Library, Random House, New York, Copyright 1934

First published in the United States in 1934 by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc.
With an introduction by Dorothy Canfield.
This book is #54 in the Modern Library series.

Isak Dinesen was the pen name for her readers in English language countries of the Danish-born author Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (né Dinesen) (1885-1962), who used the pen name of Tania Blixen for her readers in German-language countries, and also used the pen names of Osceola (for fiction in Danish periodicals), and Pierre Andrézel (for her only novel) for her readers in Denmark, although she wrote only in retailer English and Danish.

She is best known, among others, for such works as Out of Africa, an autobiographical account of her many years in Kenya, Babette's Feast and Seven Gothic Tales, which is offered here and was particularly popular in Denmark. She had five Book-of-the-Month Club selections. In 1982 Judith Thurman published a remarkable biography of the author, entitled Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, which won the National Book Award.

Green cloth, with gilt- on black-stamped spine and front-cover titles. Glossy, color illustrated, price-clipped dust jacket. Includes two-page list of 80 books in the Modern Library Giants series. On the inside of the dust jacket is a lengthy list of Modern Library titles. Endpapers printed in grey with the Modern Library logo.
First Thus-The seven tales are: The Deluge At Norderney; The Old Chevalier; The Monkey; The Roads Round Pisa; The Supper At Elsinore; The Dreamers, and The Poet.

Understanding First Thus- "First Thus" means the first appearance in this format. These are typically reprints or alternate formats but not considered the "true first." ... "Thus" can also cover various reprints and revisions, as long as they are the first edition of the book to be published in that format.
That means that this is a reprint but a First Edition for Modern Library, hence First Thus.