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Stockholm:: Bermann-Fischer,. G+/Fair. 1946. Hardcover. Hardback bound in black cloth with light cover wear, scuffing. Hinges sound, uncracked; pages tight, clean. DJ very worn, with significant chipping, tears, soil. Text in German. Not library discard. ; .

George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1921. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. The boards are rubbed and sunned.Pencil inscription.A little tanning.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

S Fischer Verlag, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 95 pages (complete). In German throughout. Pocket-sized edition. The dustjacket has a clear plastic protective cover (slightly worn). The dj is marked and sunned but is otherwise sure and placid. The boards are very smart. Within, the contents are clean, clear, contented and confident. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Frankfurt: S. Fischer, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Pages are age toned. DJ with mylar protection.

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1950 Previous owner's inked name on ffep and light pencil underlining on about 20 pages, else textblock and binding is clean and tight overall. lightly rubbed and edge-worn, unclipped dust jacket. 468pp.; including index . Hallam Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good (in mylar). Illus. by Plates. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover.

New York: Hastings House, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 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.

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.

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, 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.