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Das Glasperlenspiel. Versuch einer Lebensbeschreibung des Magister Ludi Josef Knecht samt Knechts hinterlassenen Schriften.

First edition of Hermann Hesse's Das Glasperlenspiel

Hermann HesseHermann Karl Hesse, 1877–1962

First edition. 2 vols., complete. 8vo, pp. 451, [1]; 441, [1]. Publisher's pale blue cloth, stamped in gilt and black to spines, gilt devices to backstrips and upper boards; top edges stained reddish-brown. In the original printed dust-jackets. Previous ownership signatures to rear free endpapers, dustwrapers lightly browned to spines, else a superb, fresh set. The rare first printing on heavy paper due to paper shortages during the war.
Erstausgabe [auf starkem Papier gedruckt]. 2 Bände [komplett], 8°. 451, [1] S.; 441, [1] S. Hellblauer Original Leinen, goldgeprägte Rückenschilder, mit Schutzumschläge. Erste Ausgabe des opus magnum, an dem Hesse mehr als elf Jahre schrieb. Signatur des Vorbesitzers auf dem Vorsatz. Rücken der Schutzumschläge etwas gebräunt, sonst aber frisches, sehr schönes Exemplar der Erstausgabe.
Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, and it was this complex, futuristic utopia, over which he laboured for more than a decade, which the Nobel Committee cited in making the award.
[Wilpert/Gühring II, 251; Mileck II, 76]
edition
first edition
format
hardback
publisher
Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag A.G.
published in
Zürich
publication year
1943
volumes
2
genre
literary fiction
language
German
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
fine
of jacket
fine
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ref.867 7R2