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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.

Maastricht: Halcyon-Presse, 1933. Very Good in Wraps. A charming small book of this short story by well-known Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. According to the colophon, this story first appeared in print in the Insel-Almanach auf das Jahre 1927. It was published in February 1933 in Philobiblon and reprinted here by the Halcyon-Presse. There were thirty numbered copies printed on BarchamGreen laid paer and signed by the writer. This is an unsigned copy. It is printed in a simple format consisting of three signatures, unsewn and laid into a paper wrapper. The wrapper has a light pink pattern on white paper, with the author, title and press device on the front cover. Browning to spine and light creasing along top edge of front. Text pages are also in very good condition. With the bookplate of Carel Johannes Jacob Gualtherus Vosmaer (1907 - 1986) affixed to inside of front cover. Carel JJG Vosmaer, a son of Professor Gualtherus Vosmaer, who died in 1916, traded under the name St. Lucas Society in “old and new” books and prints and had an “archive for genealogical documents." Measures 5.5 x 4.25 inches. 44 +[1] pages. GERLANG/071823.

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, 1961. Second German language edition. Hardcover. Very good +. 351pp. Quarto [27 cm] White cloth over thin 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 subtly darkened, and the free endsheets are partially toned. Richly illustrated with woodcuts by this Flemish artist, including some in full color.

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: 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.

2007. GOLDYNE, Joseph. The Invisible Collection. By Stefan Zweig. Illustrated with an original etching by Joseph Goldyne. 8vo, 230 x 140 mm., bound in original black morocco-backed sepia-coloured paper over boards. New York: Ursus Books, 2007. A handsome new edition of this classic fable about collecting. Zweig's story, set in Germany in the aftermath of the First World War, is timeless. It eloquently evokes the magic of collecting, the excitement of dealing and the pleasures and complexities of ownership. Joseph Goldyne, the distinguished California artist who is himself a renowned collector, has thoughtfully produced an illustration which successfully solves the problem of how to illustrate a book, which on first reading would seem to defy the concept of illustration. Peter Koch has designed and printed as elegant a version of Zweig's story as one could hope for. One of an edition of only 50 copies elegantly printed by Peter Koch in San Francisco, and containing a signed etching by Joseph Goldyne. The colophon is signed by both Peter Koch and Joseph Goldyne. As new. Bringhurst, Robert. JOSEPH GOLDYNE: Catalogue Raisonné of Books, Portfolios, and Calligraphic Sheets, 008.

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Bound carbon typescript of Stefan Zweig's 1927 novella, made for the purpose of use by German actress Lil Dagover for her reading of same for the 1963 German LP, "Lil Dagover spricht Stefan Zweig." Dagover's name is in blue manuscript ink on the front board, then again with her German address on the front endpaper, then only her name once again on the title page. With Dagover's manuscript corrections to the text on virtually every recto, and, when a rewrite of a passage was required, on the verso to the of a given typescript passage on the recto. Typescript is accompanied by the resulting recording by Dagover, the original German issue by Deustsche Grammophon, released in 1963. One of the most famous works by Zweig, an Austrian Jew who was a passionate collector of autograph manuscripts, maintained close friendships with the likes of Sigmund Freud and Richard Strauss, and whose prose took on the dual concerns of daily life and the impact of politics on everyday people. This novella is an outwardly simple drama of a single day in a woman's life, an English widow who becomes uncontrollably attracted to a gambling diplomat during an evening in Monte Carlo. She is quickly reeled into his very troubled life, and realizes her error too late. The novella was adapted to film in 1931, 1944, 1952, and 1968, and most recently in 2002, with the most notable among these adaptations is Max Ophuls' first American film, "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948), starring Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan. Pages Near Fine, binding three quarter leather and decorated paper covered boards, with no titling, Very Good plus.

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.