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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.

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.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Very Good/Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First American Edition. Octavo; xiv, 289pp. Printed blue dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; book in green cloth with dark green lettering. Jacket shallowly tattered along edges with numerous chips and small tears, with a larger chip at head of spine and splitting down much of back flap fold. Boards rubbed and faded along edges, with nudging and some fraying to spine ends and some general scuffs and smudges to surface. Spine a bit cocked. Rear hinge cracked with mesh exposed. Back board and book in general opens easily between gatherings, but binding is sound. Pages unmarked. Fictionalized account of the relationship between Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. Brod was a longtime friend of Franz Kafka, to whom the book is dedicated, and as the literary executor of his estate famously refused to burn Kafka's works in keeping with the more famous author's last wishes.

Pasadena: The Clinker Press. Fine. 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Taupe cloth with illustrated paper cover label; paper spine label. Printed at The Clinker Press by Andre Chaves; set in 10 point Palatino designed by Hermann Zapf and printed on Revere paper in an edition of 140 copies. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 28 pages .

2007. GOLDYNE, Joseph. The Invisible Collection. By Stefan Zweig. Illustrated with an original etching by Joseph Goldyne. 8vo, 230 x 140 mm., bound in original black morocco-backed sepia-coloured paper over boards. New York: Ursus Books, 2007. A handsome new edition of this classic fable about collecting. Zweig's story, set in Germany in the aftermath of the First World War, is timeless. It eloquently evokes the magic of collecting, the excitement of dealing and the pleasures and complexities of ownership. Joseph Goldyne, the distinguished California artist who is himself a renowned collector, has thoughtfully produced an illustration which successfully solves the problem of how to illustrate a book, which on first reading would seem to defy the concept of illustration. Peter Koch has designed and printed as elegant a version of Zweig's story as one could hope for. One of an edition of only 50 copies elegantly printed by Peter Koch in San Francisco, and containing a signed etching by Joseph Goldyne. The colophon is signed by both Peter Koch and Joseph Goldyne. As new. Bringhurst, Robert. JOSEPH GOLDYNE: Catalogue Raisonné of Books, Portfolios, and Calligraphic Sheets, 008.

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.

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University / The Charles Deering Library, 1938. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second printing. Signed by Stefan Zweig in purple ink on the front free end paper. Publisher's patterned red paper covered boards with title labels on spine and upper board. Near Fine with light toning and shelf wear to covers. Signed by the Austrian writer whose work inspired the 2014 Wes Anderson film, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

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.