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Copenhagen: Jesperson og Pios Forlag, 1953. First Danish Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/N/A. The author's magnificent homage to the disappearing face of Europe which inspired Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel. Assumed First Danish Edition. A very nice copy in patterned boards and leather corners and spine. Page ends sprayed/speckled blue. Small sticker removal scar(1/2"" X 3/4"") to rear board and a few scuffs to boards in general. Light edgewear. Smudge to one page, otherwise clean interior and tight binding.

1934. FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER AND DUSTJACKET. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. Tan binding, red designs and lettering, red top edge, frontispiece, illustrations (plates), 247 pages. Deckled fore-edge. Dustjacket with price intact on flap. Condition of binding: Light soiling, age toning, Christmas (1934) inscription. Interior: Scattered pencil underlines (some appear to be erased affecting some words of text), else overall Very Good. Dustjacket: Piece missing from lower left corner of front panel, shelving wear, lightly age toned/soiled; else overall Fair. This is a biography of Erasmus (1469-1536), one of the most famous Humanist of his time-a great scholar of the northern Renaissance, a pacifist, a contrarian, and the compiler of the first edition of the Greek New Testament to be printed and distributed. He hated bigotry, desired freedom and independence, and was called "the man who laid the egg that Luther hatched." He is similar to the liberal minds of our own times. A remarkable, page-turning biography. A historical, collectible book. Note: We are a well-established, well-respected, ethical book dealer in business since 1991. We describe the condition of our books thoroughly and honestly, so you'll know exactly what you will be receiving when you order. We ship promptly.

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.

Pynson Printers, Inc, 1926. Hardcover. Collectible; Very good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Very good hardcover, partial tissue glassine dust jacket present. First American Edition. 1926. Prior owner's book plate on front pastedown. In very good original slipcase, light tanning and rubbing, title label a little chipped.

Boston: Beacon Press. 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. Rubbing along panel edges. Few open tears. .

New York: Ursus Books, 2007. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. No. 89 of 100 copies signed by the printer, Peter Koch, and artist Joseph Goldyne, who has supplied a blank frontispiece on 17th century paper, signed by him on the paper in pencil as well as at the colophon. 8vo, orange-pink laid paper boards, just short of fine copy (tiniest bump to top edge of front board). Koch printed this in Berkeley. Comes with original description folded in from Ursus Books. A fable about collecting; Goldyne, in addition to being a well known California artist, is also a renowned collector.

NY: Pynson printers, 1926. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. decor., patterned boards 36pp., sepia ills., Illustrations by Joseph Malay

Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes: Good hardcover. NO dust jacket. Some wear on corners, edges and spine. Deckle edges. Pages tanned, otherwise clean pages. First edition. Sm8vo, 297pp.

New York: Viking Press, 1939. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. 8vo. red cloth covered boards, blind stamped and stamped in gold. 905 pp. Book is in fine condition./Dust jacket has one 1" triangular chip at bottom edge of front panel and a few small chips at top edge of back panel. Spine of d j is a little faded. Overall, sturdy and presentable.. Author's Note: Although the three trilogies in this volume were written during a period of twenty-five years, all were, from the very first, parts of a single plan. I was drawn to the attempt to make clear the generic characteristics of the poetic type by means of the contrasts and likenesses of each trinity of creative figures in the three books. The first series, Three Masters was intended to depict, in the life and work of three writers of different nationality - Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoeffsky - the type of the world-portraying novelist; the third series, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, treated of the self-portraitists, the masters of autobiography, in the persons of Casanova, Stendhal, and Tolstoy. Between these two books came The Struggle with the Daimon, in which I sought to describe, in Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche - as opposed to Goethe, the genius of self-preservation - the type of the self-destructive poet whose "daimon" at once drags him aloft and thrusts him down into the inner abyss. Of the three trilogies, Three Masters and Adepts in Self-Portraiture appeared in English shortly after their German Publication. The third, The Struggle with the Daimon, was held back for extrinsic reasons and now appears in English for the first time. Thus is finally brought to a close a work which, I hope, will, through the very differences of its nine characters, communicate the inner unity of its purpose: to show the eternal struggle that every artist is obliged to wage against reality for his work's sake. -- Stefan Zweig.

Insel-Verlag, 1906. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. About the book: Hardcover. No jacket. Book is in good condition with a fair bit of bumps and bruises to board. Interior relatively clean. No names, no marks. Additional photos available upon request.