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Berlag Zu Leipzig. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. German text. Boards are shelf worn with small creases along the spine, but the boards remain strong. Binding is secure. Small sticker on the top left corner of the front pasted down. Ink inscription from previous owner on the front end page. Markings throughout, but it doesn't affect the text. JHK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Frankfurt: S. Fischer. In German. Nice clean copy. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1984.

Barcelona.: Edit. Juventud., 1959.. Hardcover. Sobrecubierta deslucida. Firma del anterior propietario. Good. 22 cm. 256 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Zweig, Stefan 1881-1942. Traducción de Editorial Juventud ; texto revisado por el Dr. Richard Friedenthal. Atenas. Traducción de: Zeit und Welt . Sobrecubierta deslucida. Firma del anterior propietario. Literatura alemana. Otros géneros. Siglo XX. (83-4"19") [[821.112.2-4/-9]]

Cassell and Company Limited, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1950. Hallam Edition. 468 pages. Dust jacket over patterned cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Faint foxing. Heavy tanning to spine. Light rubbing and marking all over.

U.S.A: The Viking Press, 1946. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Edition in Good Condition. No Jacket. Translated by William and Dorothy Rose. 14 plates of sepia illustrations before text. The life of one of the world's most notable writers and one of the founders of realism in European literature, Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a series of almost 100 novels collectively called "La Comedie Humaine", which provide a portrait of all aspects of French society in the years after Napoleon's fall in 1815. He is known for his very human and realistic characters. His biographer, Stefan Zweig (1881-19420 , was himself a prolific Austrian novelist, and a playwright, journalist and biographer, quite popular in the 1920s and 1930s. A tight and solid book. Grey tweed cloth with red script HB on the front panel, spine has red panel with grey and red titles. Clean with light wear to extremities. Small stamp on paste-down from a Senior Center and pocket on endpaper. Internals clean, unmarked, no tears, slightly toned. 404 pages with Appendix and Bibliography. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 1946, The Viking Press, New York, New York, USA

Other Press, New York NY, 2014.. Octavo; hardcover, with silver gilt spine titling; 390pp., untrimmed, with monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Dustwrapper. Near fine. "From his new home in the 'lush perch' of nearby Petropolis, the emigre Viennese bestseller relished the warmth, grace and tolerance of Brazil's 'new kind of civilisation', with its blessed absence of racism. Meanwhile, in the Nazi-occupied Europe that the literary superstar had fled, total war had reached its deep midnight. With his younger second wife Lotte Altmann chronically ill, his peers scattered and the 'posthumous existence' of the exile closing in, his depression deepened. A few days later, he took a fatal dose of barbiturate; Lotte followed him. Although their double suicide seemed to ratify Goebbels' grim jest about artistic emigres as 'cadavers on leave', the shock stiffened the resolve of Zweig's many friends in the anti-Hitler diaspora. The New York Times ran a heartfelt editorial: not the refugees but the Nazis, it said, were the real exiles from civilisation, 'branded with the mark of Cain'. By the end of 1942, after El Alamein and Stalingrad, a faint daybreak began. Zweig would never see that dawn. Thoughtful, evocative and quietly gripping, George Prochnik's book about Zweig's exemplary exile does not offer a cradle-to-grave biography. Oliver Matuschek, whom he fully credits, did that job superbly in 2011. Rather, The Impossible Exile braids this hugely successful writer's ordeal of dispossession and homelessness after 1934 with the trajectory of Prochnik's own family - like Zweig's, Viennese Jews who moved to the Americas. He also travels in his subject's footsteps and crafts aphorism-studded reflections on his work, life and times. If such a hybrid genre presents pitfalls for the writer, it can also deliver rich rewards. Rebecca Mead, for one, reaped them in her fine book about a lifetime's journey with George Eliot, The Road to Middlemarch. If this equally subtle blend invites that comparison, it may not be pure coincidence. George Prochnik and Rebecca Mead are husband and wife. .. Prochnik can pay homage to this big-hearted, hyper-active visionary with a 'genius for friendship' without making him the equal in exile of Thomas Mann or Sigmund Freud - whose eulogy Zweig delivered at Golders Green cemetery in 1939.Typically, it fell to Zweig - the ultimate networker and stalwart volunteer - to do the job. Up the road in Hampstead, Prochnik speaks with Lotte's niece Eva, who as a child lived with the couple. Now in her eighties, Eva can look back on a long, rich career in the health service and as a mentor for young musicians. Despairing solitude snuffed out Zweig's own hopes. Yet his books endure - re-translated recently to loud acclaim - while those he nurtured would heal a wounded world. Through the lives and minds of others, the exile rebuilt his home." - Boyd Tonkin

Hastings House - New York, 1954. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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.

First edition first printing of this collection of short crime stories. Some of the collected are: That Evenin' Sun Do Down by William Faulkner, The Chink and the Child by Thomas Burke, The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy, The Guilty Party by O. Henry. 21 stories in total. There is a 2 inch semi closed tear to the dustjacket's rear panel bottom edge. Price clipped otherwise in very good / good condition.