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  • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
  • Date published: 1928
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Very Good/Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First American Edition. Octavo; xiv, 289pp. Printed blue dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; book in green cloth with dark green lettering. Jacket shallowly tattered along edges with numerous chips and small tears, with a larger chip at head of spine and splitting down much of back flap fold. Boards rubbed and faded along edges, with nudging and some fraying to spine ends and some general scuffs and smudges to surface. Spine a bit cocked. Rear hinge cracked with mesh exposed. Back board and book in general opens easily between gatherings, but binding is sound. Pages unmarked. Fictionalized account of the relationship between Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. Brod was a longtime friend of Franz Kafka, to whom the book is dedicated, and as the literary executor of his estate famously refused to burn Kafka's works in keeping with the more famous author's last wishes.
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  • Publisher: Viking Press
  • Date published: 1928
New York: Viking Press, 1928. First Thus. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's cloth in light tan decorative dust jacket printed in brown and orange; [6],187pp.; frontispiece and decorations throughout. Jacket extremities gently rubbed, small chip at spine crown, spine a bit toned, else Near Fine in Very Good or better jacket. "A New York Theatre Guild Production" - upper jacket panel. A modern adaptation of Jonson's 17th-c. comedy; this version was later adapted for George Antheil's 1953 opera.
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (USA)
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  • Publisher: Viking Press
  • Date published: 1931
New York: Viking Press, 1931. First American Edition. First printing. 12mo. Yellow cloth, titled in maroon on spine with color pictorial vignette to front cover; dark green topstain; 121pp. Light soiling to cloth, else a straight, tight, Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.50 on front flap), lightly soiled but generally bright and unfaded, Very Good+. Zweig's controversial novella, originally published in the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse in 1922. The story, filled with Freudian references, deals with the romantic obsession of an abortionist with one of his patients, leading finally to her death and his suicide - almost needless to say, this was hardly the drink of choice for Americans in the Great Depression; the print run must have been small and sales smaller still, as today the book is unexpectedly scarce in commerce, and rarely found in nice condition.
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (USA)
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