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I want to identify this nice handwritten style font (if it is a font, for me very hard to find) from the book The wizard of Oz in a Norwegian translation.

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Here are info about the book and some font samples:

The font appears only on the front cover page, page 5, 6 and the last page (back cover).

The book can be found online (for Norwegians) here:

https://www.nb.no/items/cf548bc394a0cff46064bbe5a42c9f3a?page=0&searchText=oaiid:"oai:nb.bibsys.no:990317933044702202"

 

Title: "Trollmannen fra Oz"

© Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S 1982 (Luna-bøkene)
2. utgave 1992 (Bra Bøker)
3. utgave Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS - Gyldendal Barn & Ungdom 2003 (Les for meg)
Originalens tittel: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Utgitt første gang 1900
Omslagsillustrasjon: Muriel K. Sandberg Repro: RenessanseMedia
Trykk og innbinding: Korotan Ltd, Slovenia 2003.
Papir: 135g Scheufelen Matt (1,60). Boken er satt med: 13/17 Minion Condensed

ISBN 82-05-31028-9

Here is a sample of the font I want to find:

OverskriftTrollmannenfrOz_2.jpg.3b20887fc76c11c2108739ed6ccc30cc.jpg

Et pusterom i en travel hverdag

And the whole page:

TrollmannenfraOzside(7).thumb.png.0f14d413c2e6bcbe010a6241b5e7a496.png

Any help or insight is appreciated. I am way out in my second houre trawling the internet to find this font. Using image search, similarity name search, font identification by class/type, ChatGPT and looking through some of my own font collections.

That this is difficult makes me only more determined.

Fonts have always fascinated me and I love to write and design. I hope somebody here have the insight or luck to crack this challenge.

I will search som more myself and post the most similar font names.

I found someting quite close, but the p, the s and the r has not been quite there all together. Also the italic skew have been way too much in every case. (Should have been nothing?)

At first "English157 BT" looked like a promising candidate, but now it seems more like a lonely blind gate. I especially dislike the much more italic look. (Any trick to de-italic a font?)

Looking foreword for your reply.

Overskrift Trollmannen fr Oz.jpg

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