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2025. 1st Edition. paperback......We ship daily from our Bookshop.

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.

Berlin: Axel Juncker Verlag, 1923. First edition, not numbered, not signed. Hardcover. Good +. 177pp. Large octavo [25 cm] Green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the backstrip and front board. With tipped-in photographic representation of Masereel on the verso of the title page. The spine and the edges of the covers are faded, the front hinge is weak, and the text block is just starting to crack at the beginning. The pages are darkened. Ritter, p. 525. Graphiker Unserer Zeit, Band I.

Wien Leipzig Zurich: Herbert Reichner Verlag, 1935. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 21 Tafeln. 526 Pp. Orange Cloth Stamped In Brown And Gilt. First Printing. Fine. Dust Jacket Browned, Light Wear, A Few Very Tiny Edge Ters, Damp Spotting To Spine. Original Slipcase / Shipping Carton

New York: Viking Press, 1931. First American Edition. First printing. 12mo. Yellow cloth, titled in maroon on spine with color pictorial vignette to front cover; dark green topstain; 121pp. Light soiling to cloth, else a straight, tight, Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.50 on front flap), lightly soiled but generally bright and unfaded, Very Good+. Zweig's controversial novella, originally published in the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse in 1922. The story, filled with Freudian references, deals with the romantic obsession of an abortionist with one of his patients, leading finally to her death and his suicide – almost needless to say, this was hardly the drink of choice for Americans in the Great Depression; the print run must have been small and sales smaller still, as today the book is unexpectedly scarce in commerce, and rarely found in nice condition.

Berlin: Axel Juncker Verlag, 1923. Limited Edition (#88 of 150). Leatherbound. Very Good. SIGNED. 177 pp. Large octavo [26 cm] bound in full red Morocco with five raised bands and the title gilt on the backstrip. Boards embossed in blind. Top edge gilt. Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Rubbing and wear to the raised bands of spine as well as edges and corners of boards. Small bookplate on the front pastedown. Signed by Frans Masereel on the page bearing his self-portrait [at page 32]. Includes 42 woodcut illustrations and a pasted-in photograph of Masereel on verso of title. Text in German. This edition was limited to 150 numbered copies on handmade paper, this is copy number 88. "Dieses werk wurde im jahre 1923 in der Buchdruckerei Gustav Ascher, Berlin gedruckt. 150 Exemplare wurden auf Butten gesondert abgezogen, numeriert, vom Kunstler signiert und in einen mit der Hand gefertigten Einband gebunden. Dieses Exemplar tragt die Nummer: 88

New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Stefan Zweig on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt lettering; lacking dust jacket. Very Good with shelf wear at extremities; slight lean to binding, spine faded and mottled, lettering is quite rubbed. Offsetting to end sheets with remnants of small bookseller ticket to rear; contents lightly tanned. Scarce historical novel that was later adapted into film by Maurice Elvey in 1946. Wes Anderson loosely based The Grand Budapest Hotel off this work.