DAS GLASPERLENSPIEL. Versuch einer Lebensbescheibung des Magister Ludi Josef Knecht samt Knechts hinterlassenen Schriften

by Hermann Hesse

$2,250 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Zurich: Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag AG, 1943 . Octavo, two volumes; pp. 1-14 15-451 542 ; 1-8 9-441 442 443-444: blank note: last leaf is a blank , original blue cloth, front panels stamped in gold, spine panels stamped in gold and black, top edges stained brown. First edition, first printing. This utopian novel set in the twenty-fifth century was the principal work for which Hesse received the 1946 Nobel Prize for

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