First Edition, In Original Dust Jacket
Steppenwolf.
Berlin: S. Fischer, 1927.
Der Steppenwolf. Berlin: S. Fischer, [1927].
First edition, in original first issuedust jacket (with bis.15 on front). Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches; 184 x 110 mm). [1]-64, [2, yellow wrapper], [34], [65]-289, [1, colophon], [2, blank] pp. with the separately paginated Tractat bound in with faux wrappers as required.
Original pale blue linen cloth. Boards ruled in gilt. Front board with the initials "hh" in gilt. Spine with black panel, lettered and stamped in gilt. Middle section within the yellow wrappers a bit toned as usual, otherwise a near fine copy. In the publisher's original printed dust jacket. A few tiny chips to lower edge and front flap crease. Spine and flap folds sunned. Minor stain to jacket spine. Jacket is approximately one centimeter shorter than the book, with evidence of it being trimmed along the bottom and top edge. A near fine book in a very good jacket. Housed in a custom full navy blue morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped on spine.
[Hermann Hesse], German novelist and poet. Hesse is known as a writer of engaging prose, rich in human sympathy, imagination, and ironic humor...Steppenwolf is a more turbulent and perplexing novel, which treats the theme of artist as outsider and confronts the bestial aspects of human nature...[Hesse[ was a Swiss citizen from 1921 until his death, and recieved the Nobel Prize in 1946. (Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia, 471)
HBS 67295.
$7,500.
Price: $7,500.00
Item #67295