PLAYTHINGS OF TIME

by Arnold Zweig

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Martin Secker, 1935. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in black, top edge stained green. First edition in English. A translation, by Emma D. Ashton, of SPIELZEUG DER ZEIT. Contains a dozen short stories of a rather dark literary cast. Armorial bookplate of one Julian Hamilton Cassan Simpson, an Australian affixed to front paste-down. Spine tanned, some patchy fading to cloth, else a very good copy. #117075

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