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Price: US$22.10 + shipping
Description: Seite 176-201. Neue Broschur. Gut erhalten, Stempel auf Umschlag. Sonderdruck. International orders: Please mention, the indicated shipping rates are not weight based and could be higher. We will contact you. Thank you. * 200 Jahre J.J. Heckenhauer *
Seller: Antiquariat J.J. Heckenhauer e.K., ILAB, Tuebingen, Germany
Hermann Hesse. Das Glasperlenspiel, Band I. Fretz & Wasmuth, 1943.
Price: US$31.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1943. 451 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Vol.I. Printed in German. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.36 + shipping
Description: Oln. W B#nde, ,452 + 442s., in gutem Zustand, [GSA3,3b], () Deu 700g
Seller: Antiquariat Petri, Jena, Germany
Price: US$49.72 + shipping
Description: 441 S. Hellblaue OLwd. mit Goldprägung. Gutes Exemplar. - Erste Ausgabe, WG II,251 - Hier eine Variante mit dünnerem Papier u. der Einband mit blindgeprägten Randleisten. -
Seller: Heilbronner Antiquariat - Michael Wahl, Heilbronn, Germany
Price: US$65.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 451 Seiten Zustand: Einband etwas angeschmutzt, Rücken etwas aufgehellt, Schnitt leicht gebräunt, Block sonst sauber und gut. Band 1 von 2! Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 435
Seller: Leipziger Antiquariat, Leipzig, Germany
Price: US$82.87 + shipping
Description: 8°. 451 u. 441 S., 1 Bl., hellblaue Orig.-Ganzleinenbände mit Rückengoldprägung, Deckelgoldbordüren und goldgeprägten Deckelvignetten, Kopffarbschnitt. Erste Ausgabe. Besitzvermerk auf beiden Vorsätzen, sonst sehr guter Zustand. de Band:
Seller: erlesenes · Antiquariat & Buchhandlung, Wien, Austria
Price: US$88.39 + shipping
Description: 451, (1) SS.; 441, (1) SS. 8vo. Goldgepr. Orig.-Ln. Erste Ausgabe, erster Druck auf dickerem Papier. Hesses grosses Alterswerk, das ihn seit 1930 beschäftigte. Wilpert/G. 251. Rücken und Deckel stellenweise ausgebleicht. Kopfschnitt fleckig. Vorsatz und Titelblatt zu Band I mit Bräunung infolge eingelegten Papiers. Obere Kante des Vorderdeckels von Bd. I mit kleiner Stauchung.
Seller: Peter Bichsel Fine Books, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$120.43 + shipping
Description: 5. Aufl., 2 Bde, 8°, 451,1 S.; 441,1 S., 1 Bl., Olwd., goldgepr. Deckelmonogramm, dekorative Rvg. Rücken etwas lichtschattig, Vorsätze und Schnitt gering stockfleckig. + + + Achtung: Für unsere Kunden in Deutschland erfolgt der Versand in der Regel verzollt vierzehntäglich ab Deutschland. + Bankverbindung in Deutschland vorhanden. + Bitte fragen Sie uns an. Danke + + +
Seller: Antiquariat Viarius, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
Price: US$121.54 + shipping
Description: 1. Auflage (Band 1) und 5. Auflage (Band 2). 2 Bde. Zürich, Fretz & Wasmuth, 1943 / 1950. 8°. 451, 441 S. Blaue OLwd., Rücken von Band 2 aufgehellt, in gutem Zustand. (s. Foto). Band 1 in der 1. Ausgabe WG2, 251 Sprache: de Rücken von Band 2 aufgehellt, in gutem Zustand. (s. Foto).
Seller: Antiquariat Johann Forster, Friedenweiler, BW, Germany
Price: US$132.59 + shipping
Description: 10 Orig.-Broschuren, - Einbände 'bestaubt'. Kommentar: *Heft 10/11 als Doppelheft. - Enthält u.a.: Hermann Hesse 'Nachruf auf Christoph Schrempf', 'Edmund'; Walther Meier 'Die Vernichtung der Leipziger Bücherstadt'; Robert Faesi 'Hermann Hesses Glasperlenspiel'; Anni Carlsson 'Hermann Hesses Gedichte'.
Seller: Antiquariat Bibliomania, Köln, NRW, Germany
Hesse, Hermann:. Das Glasperlenspiel. Zürich, Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag, 1943.
Price: US$165.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 892 Seiten 3. Auflage der Ersten Ausgabe, in zwei Bänden. Leineneinband gut, nur an Rücken und Kanten ausgeblichener, Band II am Rücken leicht angeschmutzt. Seiten nur wenig nachgedunkelt, Schnitte stärker. Insgesamt gute (und seltenes!) Exemplare. Leicht schiefgelesene Rücken. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 746
Seller: PlanetderBuecher, Hamburg, Germany
Price: US$176.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 451, 441 Seiten. 3. Auflage. 2 Originalleinenbände. Gut erhalten. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 750
Seller: ACADEMIA Antiquariat an der Universität, Freiburg, Germany
Price: US$191.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1. Auflage, 2 Bände 1943 D019033 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 740
Seller: Armoni Mediathek, Hilden, Germany
Hermann Hesse. Das Glasperlenspiel. Zwei Bande. Zurich: Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag, 1943.
Price: US$194.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: first edition; 2 vols., 452 + 442 pp., original blue cloth (hardcovers), book plate to each front paste down, small tape reinforcement to the front joint of the second volume, else near fine in very good dust jackets. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$198.88 + shipping
Description: 451, 441 S., OLwd. Erstausgabe. Mileck II, 76. Hesses letztes großes Prosawerk enstand 1930-42. Rücken verblasst.
Seller: Antiquariat Knut Ahnert Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Hesse, Hermann. Das Glasperlenspiel. 2 Vols. [FIRST PRINTING]. Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag, Zürich, 1943.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. 451 [1], 441 [1]pp. Original light blue cloth with gilt initials and framing on cover, gilt lettering on black label of spine, decorative gilt ruling. Top edges brown. An attempt to describe Master Ludi Josef Knecht, including Knecht's writings left behind. Last full-length novel of the Nobel Laureate Hermann Hesse. Rejected for publication in Germany the novel was published by Fretz & Wasmuth in Zurich in 1943. In 1946 Hesse won Nobel Price for Literature. The novel is set in the 25th Century in Castalia, a fictional province in central Europe reserved for the life of the mind. The intellectuals inhabiting Castalia run a boarding school and play the Glass Bead Game. Thenature of the game remains elusive throughout the book. However, it requires the study of music, mathematics and cultural history and produces an abstract synthesis of arts and sciences. Text in German. Bindings with very light wear and sunning along edges. Blocks lightly age-toned.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$329.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 452 + 442 S. 2 Bände mit Schutzumschlägen. Schönes Exemplar mit Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Markierungen oder Eintragungen. - Wir versenden aus unserem deutschen Lager heraus in plastikfreien oder wiederverwendeten Polstertaschen. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 750 Gebundene Ausgabe im goldgeprägten Leineneinband
Seller: Antiquariat Mäander Quell, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany
Price: US$478.48 + shipping
Description: 8°, 451; 441 S., OLwd., Rücken etwas beschienen, min. fleckig, innen sauber. Erste Auflage. (W/G1, 167) 1600 gr. Schlagworte: Erstausgaben deutscher Literatur, Hesse, Hermann
Seller: antiquariat peter petrej - Bibliopolium AG, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The German language first edition of the futuristic novel that would secure the Nobel Prize for Hesse. Two volumes. 452 pp.; 442 pp. Hardcovers, bound in light blue cloth with dust jackets. Light shelf-wear, the jackets toned with a pinhole front panel of volume one; the bindings a bit spine faded and foxed; gift inscription in volume one. [Of-C2-S3]
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$902.79 + shipping
Description: OLwd. m. goldener Rücken- u. Deckelprägung, Farbkopfschnitt. 8°, 451 u. 441 S. Rücken min. beschienen, Goldprägung mit winzigen Abblätterungen, Deckel von Bd. 1 etw. fleckig, jeweils schwache Spuren von Widmungen in Bleistift auf fliegendem Vorsatzblatt, innen sonst tadellos. Jeweils EA (W/G 251). Vom Verfasser auf Titelblatt von Band 1 in schwarzer Tinte signiert.
Seller: Antiquariat Uhlmann, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of Hesse's utopian, futuristic novel. His final and longest work, it was a major contributor to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. Written over a period of more than a decade and published while the author was in exile in Switzerland, Das Glasperlenspiel was famously described by Thomas Mann - Hesse's fellow Nobel laureate and friend - as "a great novel of education" (quoted in Roberts, p. 41). A metaphor for the game of life, the novel is "rooted in autobiography. Hesse's whole person, the world in which he lived, the details and rhythm of his life, his agonies, ideals, and his view of man, society and Western civilization permeate Das Glasperlenspiel" (Mileck, p. 283). The novel has been available in English translation since 1949, initially with the title Magister Ludi, and later as The Glass Bead Game. Joseph Mileck, Herman Hesse. Life and Art, 1980; Peter Roberts, From West to East and Back Again. An Educational Reading of Hermann Hesse's Later Work, 2012. 2 volumes, octavo. Original light blue cloth, smooth spines divided by gilt fillets and lettered in gilt on black ground, front covers bordered in gilt and with Hesse's gilt monogram, top edges pink. With dust jackets and original cardboard slipcase. Bookplate of one Maria Ida Marti on front pastedown of vol. II; Christmas 1943 inscription in red crayon on both half-titles, small symbol on title pages. Bindings bright and square, spines faintly toned, couple of tiny spots on edges of vol. II; jacket spine panels lightly toned and creased at head, couple of small marks, a few minor nicks and shallow chips, two small punctures on vol. II jacket at rear panel fold, else sharp. A very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Hesse, Hermann.. Das Glasperlenspiel.. Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag, (1943)., Zurich, 1943.
Price: US$1749.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Complete in two volumes. Original stiff tan self-wrappers. Volume 1: Corner bumps with small tears at head and foot of spine, some spots on spine and back cover, faint small pencil notation on front cover, some pencil notations in text. Volume 2: Area of dampstain on back cover and 6 rear leaves. Both volumes Good. Some years ago, when I called Hesse's bibliographer Joseph Mileck about these volumes, he informed me that he had not yet seen a wrappered set. We have since then seen only one other set come up for sale. The wrappered set is far harder to find than the hardbound set. Rare. Mileck, Volume 1, pp. 204-12.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. Complete in two volumes with dust jackets and cardboard slipcase. Vol. I: 452pp. Vol. II: 442pp. Publisher's original teal cloth with gilt over black titles and light maroon top stain to the upper page ends, thick textual pages; this is a fine, fresh set: clean and tight with no signs of previous ownership. The dust jackets are nearly fine with minimal darkening to the spines and light wear to one spine end and two corner folds. The original cardboard slipcase is in excellent structural condition, although the rear panel is stained. Overall, a remarkably well preserved copy of Hesse's Nobel Prize winning novel, which many consider his masterpiece, in its original first state.
Seller: Bowman Books, Wooster, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, two volumes; pp. [1-14] 15-451 [542]; [1-8] 9-441 [442] [443-444: 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 Literature. The English translation became the capstone of the Hesse revival in America in the 1960s. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-212. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 89-90. Negley, Utopian Literature 567. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 899-904. Bloch (2002) 1471. Not in Nagl. A fine copy in very good decorated dust jackets with some tanning, mostly to spine panels, and some damp spotting to spine panels. Uncommon in jacket. This copy is in the original cardboard slipcase. (#137999)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: 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 Literature. The English translation became the capstone of the Hesse revival in America in the 1960s. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-212. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 89-90. Negley, Utopian Literature 567. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 899-904. Bloch (2002) 1471. Not in Nagl. A fine copy in nearly fine decorated dust jackets with vertical crease and light tanning to spines. Uncommon in jacket. (#132543)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.