A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935.
STRAUSS, Richard and Stefan Zweig.
A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935.
STRAUSS, Richard and Stefan Zweig.
Publisher: Berkeley: University of California
Berkeley: University of California, (1977).. First US edition.. xxxi + 122 pp w/appendix & editorââ¬â¢s notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine and a wrinkle to crown. Translated from the original German by Max Knight. Foreword by Edward E. Lowinsky. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate inside the front cover.
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 Antoinetteone 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.
First Edition, First Printing. Published by Viking Press, 1935. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with some light toning to the page ends. Dust jacket is very good with a tear to the back top left corner, a few surface tears to the back cover, and some edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 250 pages. The book and dust jacket are in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. One 1/4" tear to top of front panel. Interior is clean and tight. "Zweig is a gripping storyteller and these stories are taut, atmospheric and psychologically astute. Zweig explores the human mind in the grip of obsession, fear, guilt, sexuality and suicide....Each story is gripping and beautifully written." Black spine/White text.
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. .
Die Heilung durch den Geist. Mesmer - Mary Baker Eddy - Freud
ZWEIG, Stefan
Die Heilung durch den Geist. Mesmer - Mary Baker Eddy - Freud
ZWEIG, Stefan
Publisher: Insel Verlag
Date published: 1931
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.
First edition. Foreword by Stefan Zweig. 72pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Plain wrappers. Text in German. Covers age-toned with chips at corners, spine worn and chipped (affecting lettering) with loss at ends, about very good with flap of dust jacket laid in (the rest of jacket lacking).
Die Heilung Durch Den Geist: Mesmer, Mary Baker-Eddy, Freud
Zweig, Stefan
Die Heilung Durch Den Geist: Mesmer, Mary Baker-Eddy, Freud
Zweig, Stefan
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1931. 1st edition. 8vo. 446pp. German. Good book. Spine ends slightly frayed. Boards soiled and mildly shelfworn. Owner's name on front free endpage, publisher's page, and title page; also embossed on title and dedication pages, and stamped throughout in bottom margin. Some minor soiling on page edges. Inquire if you need further information.
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.
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top edge gilt: The top of the text block (the edges the pages that are visible when looking directly down at the top of a closed book) has been decorated with a gold-like finish.