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

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

*No edition or printing stated. Likely 1st edition. DJ was price clipped. Minor stains to the top exterior edge of pages only. Otherwise in great condition.; -We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Garden City Ny: Garden City Publishing, 1947. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Ix, 337 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. First Edition Stated. Book Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Former Owner's Inscription Dated In 1947. Dust Jacket With Light Usage, Price Inked Out, A Few Minute Losses At Edges, Slight Browning To Spine Panel. [No Comparably Lurid Volume Of "Horrid Economic Crimes" Because , Well, Almost Everyone In Commerce And Government And Academia Would Find That Objectionable.]

First edition. Very good. Faded along the spine. Slightly worn on the edges and the corners. 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. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 250 pages. The book and dust jacket are in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. One 1/4" tear to top of front panel. Interior is clean and tight. "Zweig is a gripping storyteller and these stories are taut, atmospheric and psychologically astute. Zweig explores the human mind in the grip of obsession, fear, guilt, sexuality and suicide....Each story is gripping and beautifully written." Black spine/White text.

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1931. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publishers black-and-yellow cloth boards (hardcover); 445pp. Mild external aging and soil; internally clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. With the Bauhaus-style bookplate of psychologists Richard & Editha Sterba, graduates of the first class of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.

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

First edition. Foreword by Stefan Zweig. 72pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Plain wrappers. Text in German. Covers age-toned with chips at corners, spine worn and chipped (affecting lettering) with loss at ends, about very good with flap of dust jacket laid in (the rest of jacket lacking).

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.

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.

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

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

New York: Avon Books, 1949. First Edition. No. 44. First Edition. An anthology featuring stories by W. Somerset Maugham, Robert Payne, Stefan Zweig, John D. MacDonald, and Robert Norman Hubner. Very Good in wrappers, with moderate creasing on the edges, and wrappers lightly rubbed.

Dresden: Verlag Der Kunst, 1959. First German language edition. Hardcover. Very good minus. 324pp. Quarto [27 cm] White cloth over boards with a black ink stamped title on the spine, and a black ink stamped woodblock vignette on the front cover. With a tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Masereel. The spine is a bit darkened, and there are multiple areas of light soiling on the boards. The front hinge is a bit weak, and the pages are age-toned. Richly illustrated with woodcuts by this Flemish artist, including some in full color.

Dresden: Verlag Der Kunst, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated white cloth. Very good in ragged dust wrapper. Masereel, Frans. 324 pages. 27 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated in black and white. German text. FREITAG 6121.

Berlin: Axel Juncker Verlag, 1923. First edition, not numbered, not signed. Hardcover. Good +. 177pp. Large octavo [25 cm] Green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the backstrip and front board. With tipped-in photographic representation of Masereel on the verso of the title page. The spine and the edges of the covers are faded, the front hinge is weak, and the text block is just starting to crack at the beginning. The pages are darkened. Ritter, p. 525. Graphiker Unserer Zeit, Band I.

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.

Istanbul: Marmara Gazetesi Matbaasi, 1970. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Armenian. 320 p. Pages partly uncut. Chatrav khaghats'voghy. [= Schachnovelle]. Translated to Armenian by R. Chattechian. The Royal Game (also known as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, "Chess Novella") is a novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig written in 1941, the year before the author's death by suicide. First Armenian Edition of 'Schachnovelle' by Stefan Zweig. Armenian title means 'how to play'. Published by Istanbul Armenians. Not in OCLC.

New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First American edition, translated from the German by Phyllis and Trevor Blewitt. 8vo. 498 pp. Blue cloth, with gilt lettering to the front board and spine, corners rubbed, spine dulled with faint spots around the bottom, spine foot bumped and rubbed, head worn, with a 2cm tear in the cloth. Without the dust jacket. Bookplate of Liliore Green Palmer to front paste-down. Signed by Zweig in purple to the first blank. Clean throughout and the binding tight and square. Good candidate for a rebind, or quite alright as it sits without the dj.

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.