Magister Ludi
by HERMANN HESSE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Condition: Fine copy. Dust Jacket: Near fine. Price clipped. First American Edition, First Printing. Translated by Mervyn Savill/Near Fine
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First American Edition, First Printing. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Mervyn Savill. Black cloth, spine lettered and blocked in gilt, top edge greyish red. Unclipped dust jacket with a few chips and frays. The author's Utopian masterpiece; one of the outstanding works of 20th century European literature. Octavo. 212 x 136mm, pp.502 + final blank leaf. An excellent copy in rare condition from this Nobel Prize winner.
Synopsis
The Glass Bead Game is the last work and magnum opus of the German author Hermann Hesse. Begun in 1931 and published in Switzerland in 1943, after being rejected for publication in Germany, the book was mentioned in Hesse's citation for the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31505
- Title
- Magister Ludi
- Author
- HERMANN HESSE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Condition: Fine copy. Dust Jacket: Near fine. Price clipped. First American Edition, First Printing. Translated by Mervyn Savill
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Holt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....