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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.

Berlin: Axel Juncker Verlag, 1923. First edition. Leather bound. Very good. 177pp. Large octavo [26 cm] Bound in full red Morocco with raised bands and the title gilt on the backstrip, boards embossed in blind. Top edge gilt. Marbled endsheets and pastedowns. Moderate rubbing to raised bands of spine. Small bookplate on the front free endsheet. Signed by Masereel on the page bearing his self-portrait p. [31] (though he's docketed "32" to the colophon). Includes 42 woodcut illustrations and a pasted-in photograph of Masereel on verso of title. This edition was limited to 150 numbered copies on handmade paper, this is copy 88.