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Decorative Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 77 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dj. Text in German. Light foxing on page edges.

Decorative Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 77 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dj. Text in German. Small tear on top of spine. Slightly bumped cover board corners.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 502 pp. Tightly bound copy with clean and crisp pages. Clean text. Minimal external wear with cuts in places. Creased spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Printed in the U.S.A. First Printing of the Ungar edition. [1949 on the copyright page is from the original first edition: "Republished by arrangement with Henry Holt." Library of Congress # 57-12322 may indicate date is 1957.] Foreword, Introduction: The Bead Game, Joseph Knecht's Posthumous Writings; 502 pages. The original green cloth is very good, with corners square and gilt lettering and decorative lines bold on the spine. Top edge of text-block, colored green, shows a touch of fading, with a bit of toning and one clear 'freckle' to the fore-edge. Interior is creamy-bright and completely clean. The original unclipped ($5.00) dust jacket, printed in red and green, shows superficial rubbing, and sunning to the spine and folds; all text still legible. The publisher's address at the base of the rear panel is earlier than that which appeared on a different Ungar dust jacket with identical title and copyright pages. [Please see my 7 images of the actual book.] Hesse makes his hero say: "'The Game, as I interpret it, encompasses the player at the conclusion of his meditation in the same way as the surface of a sphere encloses its centre, and leaves him with the feeling of having resolved the fortuitous and chaotic world into one that is symmetrical and harmonious'---yet the Castilian Order does not in the last resort satisfy him as an answer to the problem of 'how to live'. This interpretation gives us a clue to the symbolic meaning of the 'Glasperlenspiel'---the idea of macrocosmos and microcosmos---but the conflict remains."---from the Foreword. As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking. …

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First American Edition. The author's Utopian masterpiece and one of the outstanding works of 20th century European literature. The basis for Hesse's 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. First US edition, first printing of the novel "Das Glasperlenspiel" in an English translation by Mervyn Savill. Published a full 20 years before the more recent translation by Richard and Clara Winston. There is no "First Edition" statement, because the book was printed using British sheets. The copyright page states "Copyright 1949 by Francis Aldor 2 Mount Row, London, W.1" with the name and address of the London printer at bottom of the page. No additional printings are noted. The book is near fine in full black cloth. Clean, tight, no markings. The unfaded black jacket is very good, price-intact, with some shallow chipping at the extremities. Included with the book is a printed invoice from prestigious Heritage Book Shop of Los Angeles dated 1996 when the book sold for $250.00. Hesse won the Nobel Prize for this work and others such as Demian, Steppenwolf and Siddhartha. He was a friend of Carl Jung. Scarce in this condition, a nice item for the Hesse collector. See photos.…