Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Maroon cloth cover with lion rampant embossed on front cover. Decorative design, title and author's name in faded gold on spine. Light fading on spine with some bumping and shelfwear. Text is clean and square. Binding is solid.15 illustrations plus frontis. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. The story of Mary Queen of Scots with index and reproductions of historical art work used as illustrations. 366 pp.
New York, NY, USA: The Viking Press, 1940. Hardcover. Good/N/A. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. None. viii, 288pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; silver design on front, silver titles on spine; top text block edge sprayed red. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed corners and spine ends with cloth wearing. Top text block edge spine sun-fading. Endpapers starting to fox and tan; bookplate on front pastedown, volume quite loose, stain to fore edge of rear free endpaper. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and bright. Austrian historian Stefan Zweig's Decisive Moments in History was first published in German in 1927. The first edition contained just five miniatures although through later editions that nunber grew to 14.  Its first English translation was published in 1940 as The Tide of Fortune: Twelve Historical Miniatures, with the miniatures all relating to world-changing events in history. Â
NY: Viking. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled cloth. Mild insecting to the cloth. Points slightly bumped. Tight and square. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; xi,238 pages .
New York, NY : Viking Press. Good/Fair. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. 8vo., 238 pp., DJ rubbed, toned, frayed, chipped, tears, splitting at foldovers, price-clipped, page toning .
NY:: Harmony Books,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0517545535 . With an introduction by John Fowles. Translated from the German by Jill Sutcliffe. First printing thus. Near fine in a near fine (age toning to flap edges) dust jacket.; 250 pages .
Stefan and Friderike Zweig: Their Correspondence 1912-1942
Zweig, Stefan And Friderike
Stefan and Friderike Zweig: Their Correspondence 1912-1942
Zweig, Stefan And Friderike
Publisher: Hastings House
Date published: 1954
Format: Hardcover
First edition. Translated and edited by Henry G. Alsberg with the assistance of Erna MacArthur. A few pages and text block faintly stained at the bottom, covers with light edgewear, very good in a slightly spine-tanned good only dust jacket with two large tears on the front panel, a 1" chip on the rear panel, faint stains and several small chips and tears.
London: Pushkin Press, 2013. cloth, hardcover in demi dust jacket, as issued. no real flaws or wear. clean. no markings. no bumps, tears. strong binding.; english text translated from german original.; 710pp., 22 short works.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Oxford: The East and West Library / Phaidon, 1944. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 106pp., very nice bright, tight & square copy in like dust jacket
Cassell and Company Ltd, 1938. 1938 First Edition. hardcover. viii, 312pp, 28 illusts, original blue cloth, first signs of foreedge foxing, VG in VG dw. A most attractive copy.. . Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.
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