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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha. Peter Owen (1954), London, 1954.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. Rebound in green cloth boards. Lacking the half-title leaf. Split to gutter at title page. 36 x 6mm chip to lower inner blank corner of title leaf. Rear hinge broken with adhesive tape repair. Some adhesive tape at gutters on pages 5 and 7.; First UK edition. [4], 7-167, [1 (blank)] pages. Lacking the half-title leaf. Reboundin green cloth boards. Page dimensions: 175 x 115mm. Text in English, translated from the German by Hilda Rosner. "In the shade of the house, in the sunshine on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sallow wood and the fig tree, Siddhartha, the handsome Brahmin's son, grew up with his friend Govinda." - the opening sentence.
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$1257.81 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Vision and Peter Owen in 1954. A near fine book without inscriptions with a little wear to the extremities. In a near fine clipped wrapper with some rubbing to the corners and spine tips and rubbing to the edges - faded to the spine. A very rare book in the elusive wrapper
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom