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Stockholm:: Bermann-Fischer,. G+/Fair. 1946. Hardcover. Hardback bound in black cloth with light cover wear, scuffing. Hinges sound, uncracked; pages tight, clean. DJ very worn, with significant chipping, tears, soil. Text in German. Not library discard. ; .

W.H. Allen. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1951. Hardback. Dust jacket is edgeworn with small areas of loss to corners and upper/lower spine, black ink marks to edges of front, price clipped; boards are clean, gilt titling faded and darkened, corners sharp; binding is tight except joint exposed between pp48.9; pages are unmarked aside from previous owner's ink signature on front endpaper, previous seller's bookplate on front pastedown. ; 5.25 x 1 x 8 inches; 191 pages .

Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY, 1935 (3rd printing) . 366 pages, clothbound, spine sunned, else very good condition. .

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co, 1933. First published by Insel Verlag, Leipzig. Tanslated by Eden and Cedar Paul. VG. Another copy, cover somewhat worn, o/w VG. A biography of the French queen that emphasizes the intrigues at court and the course of the French Revolution.

Frankfurt: S. Fischer, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Pages are age toned. DJ with mylar protection.

New York: Viking, 1935. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. NF w/ age darkened pages & very slight fade to spine in VG but worn DJ w/ chipping & rubbing to outer extremities; age darkened w/ light dust soil over all; crease runs along length of spine & chipping to head & heel of spine panel w/ irregular paper loss.

New York: Viking, 1946. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Faded along the spine. Slightly worn on the edges and the corners.

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1950 Previous owner's inked name on ffep and light pencil underlining on about 20 pages, else textblock and binding is clean and tight overall. lightly rubbed and edge-worn, unclipped dust jacket. 468pp.; including index . Hallam Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good (in mylar). Illus. by Plates. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover.

New York: Viking, 1935. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. Pages brown, clean text. Illustrated. Corners bent. Spine and edges of blue cloth cover fading. Fraying to top edge of spine.

First edition first printing of this collection of short crime stories. Some of the collected are: That Evenin' Sun Do Down by William Faulkner, The Chink and the Child by Thomas Burke, The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy, The Guilty Party by O. Henry. 21 stories in total. There is a 2 inch semi closed tear to the dustjacket's rear panel bottom edge. Price clipped otherwise in very good / good condition.

New York: The Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Translated by William and Dorothy Rose. Owner's decorative bookplate and penned name on front pastedown, spine lightly sunned, corners lightly bumped, very good lacking the dustwrapper.

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Library, 1929. Pamphlet. [4] pages. Minor scrapes to paper on front cover, otherwise Very Good. Reprinted from a supplement to Philobiblon (Vienna). Also issued to members of the Limited Editions Club (that variant has the vignette on the cover printed in blue ink).

New York: Viking, 1935. Very Good. First am. Very good minus. Book plate on front nside panel, faded cloth spine with gold stamping, cloth corners rubbed and soiled, text edges browned.

New York: Hastings House, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. vi, 344 pp. Translated and Edited by Henry G. Alsberg with the assistance of Erna MacArthur. Some bruising to bottom edges of covers, minor edgewear, two small tape marks on ffep.

Wien, Etc.: Herbert Reichner Verlag, 1935. 228 [3]p., b/w illus., original grey cloth.

Germany: Insel, 1931. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. In German. Pages yellow. Clean text. Corners lightly rubbed. Spine yellowed. Edges of spine slightly rubbed.

NY: Dutton/Obelish. (1983). First thus. Slight foxing, light crease and wear to spine; near fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine.

Santiago, Chile: Undo Rukser and Albert Theile, Publishers, 1944. Wraps. Good. Printed wraps 40 pp. ALL TEXT IN GERMAN. A single issue of this World War II era German exile periodical, featuring articles on various political, literary and social topics of that era, including a critical piece on Hitler and the ruin of Germany through his rule. With an excerpt reprinted from Stefan Zweig's Episode am Genfer See. According to Ralph Vander Heide, the Deutsche Blatter 'ranks highest among the numerous exile periodicals (...) between the years 1933-1945,' with Robert Cazden stating that it 'represented the best of all German cultural achievement during emigration,' (see Heide: German Leaves, p. 17 for both quotes). GOOD condition. Some writing/ink notes to the upper front cover. Moderate browning, somewhat heavier along the extremities. Minor soiling, scuffing and edgewear. Light toning to the paper.

Garden City Ny: Garden City Publishing, 1947. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Ix, 337 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. First Edition Stated. Book Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Former Owner's Inscription Dated In 1947. Dust Jacket With Light Usage, Price Inked Out, A Few Minute Losses At Edges, Slight Browning To Spine Panel. [No Comparably Lurid Volume Of "Horrid Economic Crimes" Because , Well, Almost Everyone In Commerce And Government And Academia Would Find That Objectionable.]

New York, NY.: Thomas Seltzer. Very Good. 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is hard-bound in tan paper covered boards with a brown cloth spine with a printed paper label. The cover sshow a few faint damp-stain spots, edge-wear, and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. There is light wear to the front hinge but with the binding solid. The contents are bright and clean, with light rubbing to the pages. There is a previous owner bookplate on the front paste-down. .

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1931. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publishers black-and-yellow cloth boards (hardcover); 445pp. Mild external aging and soil; internally clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. With the Bauhaus-style bookplate of psychologists Richard & Editha Sterba, graduates of the first class of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.

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.

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1922 novella by the same author, of the same title. The protagonist, a doctor who has moved to India from Germany to practice medicine is overcome by an obsession which eventually leads to his committing suicide. "Amok" is an Indonesian word of Malay origin, referring to people caught up in a blind rage who try to kill their enemy and do not care about whoever else gets killed in their way. From this novella and the word's meaning originates the term "running amok." Set in India. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for Stefan Zweig. 65 leaves, with last leaf of text number 65. Carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads.

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 German language edition. Hardcover. Very good minus. 324pp. Quarto [27 cm] White cloth over 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 a bit darkened, and there are multiple areas of light soiling on the boards. The front hinge is a bit weak, and the pages are age-toned. Richly illustrated with woodcuts by this Flemish artist, including some in full color.

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.

NY:: Hastings House,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. Translated from the German and edited by Henry G. Alsberg. First edition thus. INSCRIBED by Friderike Zweig to a previous owner in 1958. Very good in a very good (moderate edge wear with a large chip on the front panel) dust jacket. ; 344 pages; Signed by Author .

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.

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.