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Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. First Paperback edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps. First Paperback edition. Original Wraps. Underlining by Oliver Sacks. Dr. Sacks often made comments in the margins or had conversations with the author in the text. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so, he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Near fine. Glossy pictorial wrappers. 8vo. xvi, 472pp. Illus. (b/w). All underlining, emphasis, and notations are in the hand of Dr. Oliver Sacks.

New York: Avon Books, 1949. First Edition. No. 44. First Edition. An anthology featuring stories by W. Somerset Maugham, Robert Payne, Stefan Zweig, John D. MacDonald, and Robert Norman Hubner. Very Good in wrappers, with moderate creasing on the edges, and wrappers lightly rubbed.

Dresden: Verlag Der Kunst, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated white cloth. Very good in ragged dust wrapper. Masereel, Frans. 324 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated in black and white. German text. FREITAG 6121.

Dresden: Verlag Der Kunst, 1961. Second German language edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 351pp. Quarto [27 cm] White cloth over thin boards with a black ink stamped title on the spine, and a black ink stamped woodblock vignette on the front cover. With a tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Masereel. The spine is subtly darkened, and the free endsheets are partially toned. Richly illustrated with woodcuts by this Flemish artist, including some in full color.

New York: Viking Press, 1928. First Thus. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's cloth in light tan decorative dust jacket printed in brown and orange; [6],187pp.; frontispiece and decorations throughout. Jacket extremities gently rubbed, small chip at spine crown, spine a bit toned, else Near Fine in Very Good or better jacket. "A New York Theatre Guild Production" - upper jacket panel. A modern adaptation of Jonson's 17th-c. comedy; this version was later adapted for George Antheil's 1953 opera.

New York: Europa Publications, Inc, 1933. Softcover. Very Good. Volume I, No. 1. Cover photograph by Samuel A. Robbins. Quarto. 52pp. Illustrated in black and white. Stapled wrappers. Wraps moderately rubbed and soiled, bumps, creases, and nicks along the edges and spine, very good overall. The inaugural issue of this short-lived publication, produced in just three volumes. Contains articles about literature, art, film, architecture, and politics, including: "Stalin and Trotsky" by Prof. Alexander Goldenweiser; "Romain Rolland and Malvida Von Meysenbug" by Stefan Zweig; "Matisse and Picasso" by Clive Bell; and more.

Istanbul: Marmara Gazetesi Matbaasi, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Armenian. 320 p. Pages partly uncut. Chatrav khaghats'voghy. [= Schachnovelle]. Translated to Armenian by R. Chattechian. The Royal Game (also known as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, "Chess Novella") is a novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig written in 1941, the year before the author's death by suicide. First Armenian Edition of 'Schachnovelle' by Stefan Zweig. Armenian title means 'how to play'. Published by Istanbul Armenians. Not in OCLC.

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Bound carbon typescript of Stefan Zweig's 1927 novella, made for the purpose of use by German actress Lil Dagover for her reading of same for the 1963 German LP, "Lil Dagover spricht Stefan Zweig." Dagover's name is in blue manuscript ink on the front board, then again with her German address on the front endpaper, then only her name once again on the title page. With Dagover's manuscript corrections to the text on virtually every recto, and, when a rewrite of a passage was required, on the verso to the of a given typescript passage on the recto. Typescript is accompanied by the resulting recording by Dagover, the original German issue by Deustsche Grammophon, released in 1963. One of the most famous works by Zweig, an Austrian Jew who was a passionate collector of autograph manuscripts, maintained close friendships with the likes of Sigmund Freud and Richard Strauss, and whose prose took on the dual concerns of daily life and the impact of politics on everyday people. This novella is an outwardly simple drama of a single day in a woman's life, an English widow who becomes uncontrollably attracted to a gambling diplomat during an evening in Monte Carlo. She is quickly reeled into his very troubled life, and realizes her error too late. The novella was adapted to film in 1931, 1944, 1952, and 1968, and most recently in 2002, with the most notable among these adaptations is Max Ophuls' first American film, "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948), starring Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan. Pages Near Fine, binding three quarter leather and decorated paper covered boards, with no titling, Very Good plus.

Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1925. New German Edition. Near Fine. New edition, reprint (33-45 thousand), originally published in 1922. Signed by Stefan Zweig in purple ink on the front free end paper. Publisher's orange cloth with spine decorated in gilt and black and front cover lettered in gilt, lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine, with faint fading to the spine, and an owner bookplate to the half-title page. A lovely copy, signed by the author. Text in German language.