Das Glasperlenspiel The Glass Bead Game : Versuch einer Lebensbeschreibung des Magister Ludi Josef Knecht samt Knechts hinterlassenen Schriften

by Hermann Hesse

$2,200 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Zurich: Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag, 1943. First edition, first printing. Two volumes. 452; 442 pp., text in German. Bound in publisher's sky blue cloth over thin boards, gilt stamping to spine and front board, title blocked in black on spine. Near Fine with faint foxing to cloth and light soiling to textblock edges. Light soiling along rear joint of Volume II, bump at upper end of same. Each in a Near Fine unclipped dust

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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