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New York: The Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Translated by William and Dorothy Rose. Owner's decorative bookplate and penned name on front pastedown, spine lightly sunned, corners lightly bumped, very good lacking the dustwrapper.

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.

London: Pushkin Press, 2017. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Translated from the German by Will Stone. Foreword by John Gray. Trade paperback. Tiny creases on page corners at the rear of book, rear corner slightly bumped, near fine.

New York: Hastings House, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. vi, 344 pp. Translated and Edited by Henry G. Alsberg with the assistance of Erna MacArthur. Some bruising to bottom edges of covers, minor edgewear, two small tape marks on ffep.

NY: Dutton/Obelish. (1983). First thus. Slight foxing, light crease and wear to spine; near fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine.

Santiago, Chile: Undo Rukser and Albert Theile, Publishers, 1944. Wraps. Good. Printed wraps 40 pp. ALL TEXT IN GERMAN. A single issue of this World War II era German exile periodical, featuring articles on various political, literary and social topics of that era, including a critical piece on Hitler and the ruin of Germany through his rule. With an excerpt reprinted from Stefan Zweig's Episode am Genfer See. According to Ralph Vander Heide, the Deutsche Blatter 'ranks highest among the numerous exile periodicals (...) between the years 1933-1945,' with Robert Cazden stating that it 'represented the best of all German cultural achievement during emigration,' (see Heide: German Leaves, p. 17 for both quotes). GOOD condition. Some writing/ink notes to the upper front cover. Moderate browning, somewhat heavier along the extremities. Minor soiling, scuffing and edgewear. Light toning to the paper.

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.

Leipzig: Im Insel-Verlag, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Biography of French poet and actress Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859). First Edition. Very good in cream paper covered boards with black title to spine and front cover. Chipping to spine ends and hinges, browning to spine, and minor wear to edges of boards. Minor browning to margins of pages, else clean. Frontispiece illustration. 349 pages. In German. GER210171.

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.

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1922 novella by the same author, of the same title. The protagonist, a doctor who has moved to India from Germany to practice medicine is overcome by an obsession which eventually leads to his committing suicide. "Amok" is an Indonesian word of Malay origin, referring to people caught up in a blind rage who try to kill their enemy and do not care about whoever else gets killed in their way. From this novella and the word's meaning originates the term "running amok." Set in India. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for Stefan Zweig. 65 leaves, with last leaf of text number 65. Carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads.