Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. Clipped dust jacket has moderate shelfwear, several chips and tears, heavily toned, especially on spine, small piece missing at top of spine. Cover has moderate shelfwear, corners, edges, and spine ends rubbed. Sunned. Minor soiling, gilt has dulled. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly toned. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Good reading/research copy. Zweig offers a nuanced, psychological portrait of Marie Antoinette—one that's rich in empathy and aimed to present her not as a mythic figure, but as a complex, often misunderstood human being. He emphasizes her contradictions, emotional struggles, and human vulnerabilities rather than royal grandeur.
Text in German. First edition-Fifth printing, 1945. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean and unmarked. P.o. bookplate the first page. Moderate rubbing and some shallow chipping to the edges and corners of the DJ. DJ is now protected by a mylar cover.
Marie Antoinette, The Portrait of an Average Woman
Zweig, Stefan [Eden & Cedar Paul (trans.)]
Marie Antoinette, The Portrait of an Average Woman
Zweig, Stefan [Eden & Cedar Paul (trans.)]
Publisher: Garden City Publishing
New York: Garden City Publishing, (1933). 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket xv + 476pp., frontis., b/w plates, index, Nice copy in bright blue cloth boards with a nice dust jacket with slight chips. Uncommon, especially in this condition
First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Bookplate inside. Front endpage missing. Short gifter's inscription on half title page. (Comedy, Drama, Plays)
Londo: Jonathan Cape, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First English edition. Introduction by John Fowles. Translated from the German by Jill Sutcliffe. Foxing on page edges, very good in a near fine dust jacket with slight toning at the edge of flaps. Signed by Fowles on the title page.
[New York:: The Pynson Press,, 1926]. First US edition.. publisher's cloth-backed patterned boards; printed paper label on spine.. Text very slightly tanned at edges with a few scattered spots; boards rubbed and worn.. 12mo,. Illustrations by Joseph Malay..
Pushkin Press, 2006 The Pushkin Press first edition of this selection from this wonderful writer's short stories. NEW & UNREAD.. 1st Edition.. Soft cover. New.
Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag, 1946. Dust jacket browned around edges, spine also browned, corners and spine ends bumped, head of spine chipped, closed reading edges browned, boards clean and tidy, title box to spine slightly rubbed, ink inscription to head of fep, pp clean and German text clear to read, slight spotting to edges of some pages, binding sound.. First Edition. Hard. Good/Good Minus. 8vo.
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