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First edition copy. Collectible-Good. Good dust jacket. Gifter's inscription on front free endpage. (French authors, biographies)

Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Maroon cloth cover with lion rampant embossed on front cover. Decorative design, title and author's name in faded gold on spine. Light fading on spine with some bumping and shelfwear. Text is clean and square. Binding is solid.15 illustrations plus frontis. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. The story of Mary Queen of Scots with index and reproductions of historical art work used as illustrations. 366 pp.

Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1931. 1st edition. 8vo. 446pp. German. Good book. Spine ends slightly frayed. Boards soiled and mildly shelfworn. Owner's name on front free endpage, publisher's page, and title page; also embossed on title and dedication pages, and stamped throughout in bottom margin. Some minor soiling on page edges. Inquire if you need further information.

New York: The Viking Press, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 247pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Slightly cocked spine, foxing on the page edges, and spotting thus very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with toning, short tears, and spotting.

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

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. 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 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)

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)

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.

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: 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.

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.

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.

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.