Alraune. Die Geschichte eines lebenden Wesens.
by Ewers, Hanns Heinz
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Item Price
$1,000.00$800.00
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About This Item
Munchen: Georg Müller, 1911. Achtzehnte Auflage (18th edition) stated at half-title page SCARCE in any early German edition. In original mustard decorative cloth, Art Deco geometrical decorative end papers, double illustrated title page, 460 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates, ribbon marker. text in German. Very Good Plus, small tear to cloth at spine, light soiling to boards. From the library of noted German conductor Helmuth Wolfes, former conductor of the Berlin State Opera, his signature in ink at half-title page. Basis for 5 films between 1918-1952. The 2nd book in the Frank Braun trilogy, in which " Braun uses artificial insemination to breed from the dregs of society - by impregnating a whore with the semen of an executed criminal - the eponymous soulless female whose name reflects in German her likeness to a mandrake root, and whose vampirical powers prove almost fatal to the Ubermensch experimenter". (SFE - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). . Eighteenth Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008664
- Title
- Alraune. Die Geschichte eines lebenden Wesens.
- Author
- Ewers, Hanns Heinz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- Eighteenth Edition
- Publisher
- Georg Müller
- Place of Publication
- Munchen
- Date Published
- 1911
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror;
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About the Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
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Bloomington, Indiana
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