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First printing of this edition. Book is in as new condition

First edition. Translated and edited by Henry G. Alsberg with the assistance of Erna MacArthur. A few pages and text block faintly stained at the bottom, covers with light edgewear, very good in a slightly spine-tanned good only dust jacket with two large tears on the front panel, a 1" chip on the rear panel, faint stains and several small chips and tears.

First edition. Very good hardcover. Previous owner's name and date on front inside panel, very minor bumps on cloth top corners, top and bottom text edges have browned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. Owner's name on ffep, half title, and title page. Stamped on inside. (Erasmus, Martin Luther, Reformation, Books in German)

Oxford: The East and West Library / Phaidon, 1944. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 106pp., very nice bright, tight & square copy in like dust jacket

First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. German edition. (Marie Antoinette, Queens, France, Biography, Books in German)

First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. No Dust Jacket German edition. Hinges cracked. Stamped on inside. (Mary Queen of Scots, Scotland, Biography, Books in German)

First edition copy. Collectible-Good. Insel-Bucherei, Nr. 408. German edition. Bookplate inside. Gifter's inscription on front endpage. (Short Stories, Fiction, Books in German)

Longmans, Green and Co. Used; Very Good. Longmans, Green and Co. 1939. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover. Book has pencil underlining throughout. Book Condition Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1939. First Edition. HARDCOVER.

Text in German. First edition-Fifth printing, 1945. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean and unmarked. P.o. bookplate the first page. Moderate rubbing and some shallow chipping to the edges and corners of the DJ. DJ is now protected by a mylar cover.

First Edition. Red stamped cloth hardcover. Viking Press, 1935. Near fine condition. Scuffing and minor shelf-wear on book. Creasing and fading on dust jacket, but isis transparent dust jacket protector.

New York: Viking Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Wolpe, Berthold. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul.

New York: Harmony Books, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Clean, square and tight. Pages are unmarked. Text block is in wonderful condition. Jacket is bright; has not been price-clipped. No creases or tears of any kind. A beautiful collection of five stories by the acclaimed Austrian writer. Includes the short story 'Letter from an Unknown Woman', on which the Max Ophuls 1948 film was based. Introduction by John Fowles. Translated from the German by Jill Sutcliffe.

New York: Garden City Publishing, (1933). 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket xv + 476pp., frontis., b/w plates, index, Nice copy in bright blue cloth boards with a nice dust jacket with slight chips. Uncommon, especially in this condition

Boston: Beacon Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Very fine copy lacking jacket. Octavo in dark beige cloth; 238p, illus.

Very good first edition with 1933 on both cp and title page with no later printings. Minor fade to edges of boards and light foxing to endpapers. Free of former owner writing or bookplates. Good, price clipped DJ with chipping to edges, more so to bottom spine and moderate rub/soil. Basis of the 1938 film. This book is in our possession. We ship most books six days a week and will confirm with tracking number for domestic orders or customs number for non domestic; 8vo.

First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Bookplate inside. Front endpage missing. Short gifter's inscription on half title page. (Comedy, Drama, Plays)

Hardbound in price clipped dust jacket. 1st edition thus. Hallam edition. Minor wear & chipping to dust jacket edges. Boards slightly cocked, otherwise very good.

Afrikaans. 160 pages (complete). Jacket and boards edge worn and a bit marked. Mild tanning, foxing, old tape residue marks, ownership inscriptions, markings. Still in good condition, tightly bound and intact. 1st edition. MK.

Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag, 1946. Dust jacket browned around edges, spine also browned, corners and spine ends bumped, head of spine chipped, closed reading edges browned, boards clean and tidy, title box to spine slightly rubbed, ink inscription to head of fep, pp clean and German text clear to read, slight spotting to edges of some pages, binding sound.. First Edition. Hard. Good/Good Minus. 8vo.

First edition copy. Collectible-Good. Good dust jacket. Portuguese. Dust jacket edgeworn and slightly dampstained. Spine slanted. Owner's name on front free endpage. (Brazil, history, travel, books in Portuguese)

New York: The Viking Press, 1934. 1934. FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER AND DUSTJACKET. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. Tan binding, red designs and lettering, red top edge, frontispiece, illustrations (plates), 247 pages. Deckled fore-edge. Dustjacket with price intact on flap. Condition of binding: Light soiling, age toning, Christmas (1934) inscription. Interior: Scattered pencil underlines (some appear to be erased affecting some words of text), else overall Very Good. Dustjacket: Piece missing from lower left corner of front panel, shelving wear, lightly age toned/soiled; else overall Fair. This is a biography of Erasmus (1469-1536), one of the most famous Humanist of his time - a great scholar of the northern Renaissance, a pacifist, a contrarian, and the compiler of the first edition of the Greek New Testament to be printed and distributed. He hated bigotry, desired freedom and independence, and was called "the man who laid the egg that Luther hatched." He is similar to the liberal minds of our own times. A remarkable, page-turning biography. A historical, collectible book. Note: We are a well-established, well-respected, ethical book dealer in business since 1991. We describe the condition of our books thoroughly and honestly, so you'll know exactly what you will be receiving when you order. We ship promptly. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.

Slight toning, else content appears as unblemished with near fine, decorated, oatmeal colored, Cloth covered boards displaying minimal surface/edge wear, in DJ displaying major surface/edge wear as shown, with reinforced and repaired chipping and tears, as shown. Many of my books are from the 19th Century. Books were not written in at that time, instead an index card with info. Am enclosing the one found in this book for you. Enjoy. The greatest and most brilliant star of his century... His numerous works, written in Latin, sleep undisturbed upon the shelves of libraries; hardly a single one of them, though in their day they enjoyed worldwide fame, has any message to our epoch." - from page 3. Kirkus Review: The success of Marie Antoinette the brilliant genius of the biographer himself, entitle this book to a place on the Must list. But the subject matter of necessity limits his scope, for source material is inadequate, and Erasmus is still somewhat shrouded in mystery. This is a ruthless, clinical study of a man who, almost forgotten today, was in his time courted by kings, princes and popes. Idealist, humanist, supernationalist, scholar, individualist to the point of weakness, a coward in his avoidance of the position of leadership in a world demanding a leader, but giving the necessary push to the Reformation, with rapier-like thrust. The book is a character analysis rather than a biography. The early part seems at times padded. But with the stirring narrative of the fight between Luther and Erasmus the story gathers speed, ending with Erasmus' death in Basle. A merciless and brilliant book; Zweig gives his subject full mood of praise and unsparing criticism. Shipping/Handling/Insurance/Tracking Included within the continental U.S. (Free Shipping). Extra Charges/Fees apply on Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books may require additional fees. Will adviseWritten 10.24.2012SK #5860-102921 Img.7223-102921

Cassell. Collectible - Very Good. London: Cassell 1951. 1st thus, 1st published in the Hallam Edition. Hardcover 12mo 290 pgs. Very good to near fine in a good dust jacket. Slight wear to spine ends. Pgs lightly toned. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket chipped along top edge. Price clipped. (Short Stories, Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

H. Good. The Viking Press, 1934. First edition. Spine is chipped at the top. Small tear to the bottom front DJ. DJ is water stained but not wrinkled. In mylar. Spine chipped

First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by Markus Wiener, 1987. Octavo. Pictorial wraps. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Covers have light shelf wear with a sticker on back. A fine copy of this collection of short stories by Austrian author Stefan Zweig. 263 pages. ISBN: 0910129592. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

New York: Viking Press, 1934. 1st U.S. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 247pp.; HB off-white w/red; rubbed,soiled&foxed;wear on corners; heavy fox,spine; bleed-thru&fox on endpapers&pastedwns.; info note tipped-in,ft.endpaper; PONstamp; clean,tight pgs. DJ lt.brwn.w/brwn.&red-portrait cover; heavy rub w/stains; wear on edges&corners; heavy sun on spine; chips&tears. Biography. some illus.

Afrikaans. 160 pages (complete). Jacket and boards edge worn and a bit marked. Mild tanning, foxing, old tape residue marks, ownership inscriptions, markings. Still in good condition, tightly bound and intact. 1st edition. MK.

Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of German, University of Otago, 1991. Letters between these two Austrian writers, both of whom, among other things, were librettists for composer Richard Strauss, whose correspondence with each man was published in the 1950s. Introductory text & commentary in English; the letters & appendixes are in German, untranslated. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, binding slightly 'sprung' at the dedication page; jacket shows some edgewear & creasing; gift label on free endsheet - part of the Austrian government's attempt to popularize Austrian literature. Text clean; 350 pages; indexes, bibliography, appendixes. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

The Viking Press, 1939. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A nice copy of a scarce book of this Zweig dramatic play - Second U.S. edition/first printing 1939. Book is in Very Good condition and the jacket is in Very Good Minus condition (see photo). Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul.

Very good first edition with 1933 on both cp and title page with no later printings. Minor fade to edges of boards and light foxing to endpapers. Free of former owner writing or bookplates. Good, price clipped DJ with chipping to edges, more so to bottom spine and moderate rub/soil. Basis of the 1938 film. This book is in our possession. We ship most books six days a week and will confirm with tracking number for domestic orders or customs number for non domestic; 8vo.

1934. FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER AND DUSTJACKET. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. Tan binding, red designs and lettering, red top edge, frontispiece, illustrations (plates), 247 pages. Deckled fore-edge. Dustjacket with price intact on flap. Condition of binding: Light soiling, age toning, Christmas (1934) inscription. Interior: Scattered pencil underlines (some appear to be erased affecting some words of text), else overall Very Good. Dustjacket: Piece missing from lower left corner of front panel, shelving wear, lightly age toned/soiled; else overall Fair. This is a biography of Erasmus (1469-1536), one of the most famous Humanist of his time-a great scholar of the northern Renaissance, a pacifist, a contrarian, and the compiler of the first edition of the Greek New Testament to be printed and distributed. He hated bigotry, desired freedom and independence, and was called "the man who laid the egg that Luther hatched." He is similar to the liberal minds of our own times. A remarkable, page-turning biography. A historical, collectible book. Note: We are a well-established, well-respected, ethical book dealer in business since 1991. We describe the condition of our books thoroughly and honestly, so you'll know exactly what you will be receiving when you order. We ship promptly.

Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes: Good hardcover. NO dust jacket. Some wear on corners, edges and spine. Deckle edges. Pages tanned, otherwise clean pages. First edition. Sm8vo, 297pp.

New York: The Viking Press, 1928. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. 10vo, 187 pages; VG/VG-; dust jacket is in a mylar covering, has price uncut '$2.00', has minor wear along the top and bottom edges, with several small closed tears, has mild chipping at the top and bottom of the spine and on the fore edge corners, has discoloration and blotching along the spine; binding has minimal wear along the top and bottom edges; pages have dust build up along the top edge; illustrated endpapers; shelved under Front Counter. 1313474. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Stated "First edition", with full number line. Harmony Books (New York, 1981). Hardcover with DJ. xviii + 250 pp. This book has remained unused. Book and DJ in like new condition. Ships immediately.

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.

Boston: Beacon Press. 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. Rubbing along panel edges. Few open tears. .

Viking, 1928. First Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. . Very good condition./Very good dust jacket. . B&W Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley Not price clipped $2.00. No previous owner's marks. No underlining or marks in text. A very nice copy.

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.

Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes: Good hardcover. NO dust jacket. Some wear on corners, edges and spine. Deckle edges. Pages tanned, otherwise clean pages. First edition. Sm8vo, 297pp.

New York: Viking Press, 1939. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. 8vo. red cloth covered boards, blind stamped and stamped in gold. 905 pp. Book is in fine condition./Dust jacket has one 1" triangular chip at bottom edge of front panel and a few small chips at top edge of back panel. Spine of d j is a little faded. Overall, sturdy and presentable.. Author's Note: Although the three trilogies in this volume were written during a period of twenty-five years, all were, from the very first, parts of a single plan. I was drawn to the attempt to make clear the generic characteristics of the poetic type by means of the contrasts and likenesses of each trinity of creative figures in the three books. The first series, Three Masters was intended to depict, in the life and work of three writers of different nationality - Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoeffsky - the type of the world-portraying novelist; the third series, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, treated of the self-portraitists, the masters of autobiography, in the persons of Casanova, Stendhal, and Tolstoy. Between these two books came The Struggle with the Daimon, in which I sought to describe, in Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche - as opposed to Goethe, the genius of self-preservation - the type of the self-destructive poet whose "daimon" at once drags him aloft and thrusts him down into the inner abyss. Of the three trilogies, Three Masters and Adepts in Self-Portraiture appeared in English shortly after their German Publication. The third, The Struggle with the Daimon, was held back for extrinsic reasons and now appears in English for the first time. Thus is finally brought to a close a work which, I hope, will, through the very differences of its nine characters, communicate the inner unity of its purpose: to show the eternal struggle that every artist is obliged to wage against reality for his work's sake. -- Stefan Zweig.

New York: The Viking Press, 1927. Solid copy in its first printing. Prolific author was popular and friends with Freud and Strauss. Left Germany (Austria) in 1934-35 because of the Nazi rise. Brown boards with gold lettering and design. Lettering on spine faded but front or top board bright. Light wear at spine ends and one tip. Vintage bookplate on front pastedown. Price intact jacket ($2.50) has shallow chip at head of spine and smaller chip at its base. Small chip on back panel near rear fold. Three novelettes. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardccover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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.

New York. 1942. February 1942. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Translated from the German by Andrew St. James. 140 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by I. Steinberg. keywords: Literature Translated Germany History Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Did Amerigo Vespucci discover America? He did not. Did he first set foot upon the mainland? He did not. Did he ever claim either of these achievements, or suggest that his name be bestowed upon this mundus novus? A proposal so audacious would never have occurred to him. By what grotesque coincidence, then, did ‘America' become the name of that new world which should have been called ‘Columbia'? In this erudite and witty book, Zweig untangles the snarl of accident and forgery that produced so astonishing a denouement. Once on the trail of this grandiose case of mistaken identity, Zweig fills in with rapid, revealing strokes the background against which it took place. He pictures the drugged world of the Middle Ages slowly regaining consciousness, reaching out to embrace all knowledge, to dare all unknown dangers, to grasp to itself the riches of an earth whose scope it had just begun to comprehend. He evaluates Vespucci's actual contribution to that greatest age of discovery, shows how an unsought notoriety was thrust upon him, and how he, the most honest and modest of men, was vilified for generations as a liar and braggart. Zweig's powers of characterization, his unerring faculty for getting at the import ant truth in the morass of ancient fact, have made him one of the most popular historians and biographers of our day. He has never had a subject better suited to his talents. inventory #7400

New York: Viking Press, 1939. 1st U.S. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 905pp.; red emboss w/gilt; slight rub w/bookplate; clean,tight pgs. DJ bluegray w/red&white; rubbed w/scuff,bk.cover; some lt.sun. "The lives and works of nine leterary geniuses... " Balzac, Dickens, Dostoeffsky, Holderlin, Nietzsche, Kleist, Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy.

New York: Viking. 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains. Aged adhesive, tape along panel edges. .

New York: Viking. First American Edition. Original cloth. Small 5-diget stamp on the rear blank, Near Fine, in Very Good Minus Dust Jacket with minor edge chips and tears. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1942.

A wonderfully illustrated first edition copy of this celebration of the work of Ephraim Moses Lilien, in the original German. One of 1000 Limited Edition copies printed of first edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. An important and uncommonly found work, celebrating the art of Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925), an art nouveau illustrator and printmaker who is sometimes considered first Zionist artist. He was notable for the Jewish themes in his art, and for his influence on the Bezalel school art movement. This work is introduced by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who, in the 1920s and 1930s, was one of the most popular authors in the world. The work contains numerous reproductions of Lilien's bookplates, borders and illustrations, as well as a portrait of Lilien with a facsimile of his signature. 'In Rosenketten' has been tipped in by a previous owner, possibly replacing the original reproduction of this work printed in the book. Further tipped-in illustrations (created by Lilien) from a previous owner to pages 59, 60, 61, 214, 215, and 302. One tipped-in illustration obscures a different illustration printed in the book, another obscures a title of a work; the rest are tipped-in to blank pages. This book is otherwise complete, which is unusual for this work. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, though faded to the spine, with small tears to the head and tail of the front joint. Shelf wear to the joints and extremities. Front hinge is starting and rear hinge is slightly strained, but both are firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. 'In Rosenketten' has been tipped in by a previous owner, possibly replacing the original reproduction of this work printed in the book. Further tipped-in illustrations (created by Lilien) from a previous owner to pages 59, 60, 61, 214, 215, and 302. One tipped-in illustration obscures a different illustration printed in the book, another obscures a title of a work; the rest are tipped-in to blank pages. Good.

A wonderfully illustrated first edition copy of this celebration of the work of Ephraim Moses Lilien, in the original German. One of 1000 Limited Edition copies printed of first edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. An important and uncommonly found work, celebrating the art of Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925), an art nouveau illustrator and printmaker who is sometimes considered first Zionist artist. He was notable for the Jewish themes in his art, and for his influence on the Bezalel school art movement. This work is introduced by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who, in the 1920s and 1930s, was one of the most popular authors in the world. The work contains numerous reproductions of Lilien's bookplates, borders and illustrations, as well as a portrait of Lilien with a facsimile of his signature. 'In Rosenketten' has been tipped in by a previous owner, possibly replacing the original reproduction of this work printed in the book. Further tipped-in illustrations (created by Lilien) from a previous owner to pages 59, 60, 61, 214, 215, and 302. One tipped-in illustration obscures a different illustration printed in the book, another obscures a title of a work; the rest are tipped-in to blank pages. This book is otherwise complete, which is unusual for this work. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, though faded to the spine, with small tears to the head and tail of the front joint. Shelf wear to the joints and extremities. Front hinge is starting and rear hinge is slightly strained, but both are firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. 'In Rosenketten' has been tipped in by a previous owner, possibly replacing the original reproduction of this work printed in the book. Further tipped-in illustrations (created by Lilien) from a previous owner to pages 59, 60, 61, 214, 215, and 302. One tipped-in illustration obscures a different illustration printed in the book, another obscures a title of a work; the rest are tipped-in to blank pages. Good.

First American edition, first printing. Signed by Stefan Zweig on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt lettering; lacking dust jacket. Very Good with shelf wear at extremities; slight lean to binding, spine faded and mottled, lettering is quite rubbed. Offsetting to end sheets with remnants of small bookseller ticket to rear; contents lightly tanned. Scarce historical novel that was later adapted into film by Maurice Elvey in 1946. Wes Anderson loosely based The Grand Budapest Hotel off this work.

New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gilt lettered blue cloth in price clipped dust jacket. Top stain red. This copy signed by the author in his recognizable signature on the front endpaper. Some darkening to top edge of dj. and wear to extremities. This book has become uncommon of late and a copy in this sharp condition signed by Zweig is truly rare..

First American edition, first printing. Signed by Stefan Zweig on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt lettering; lacking dust jacket. Very Good with shelf wear at extremities; slight lean to binding, spine faded and mottled, lettering is quite rubbed. Offsetting to end sheets with remnants of small bookseller ticket to rear; contents lightly tanned. Scarce historical novel that was later adapted into film by Maurice Elvey in 1946. Wes Anderson loosely based The Grand Budapest Hotel off this work.