Description

• First English Translation [Peter Owen: Vision Press, London, 1961]; 174, [2 blank] pages; light blue boards, gold titling to spine, slight discolouration to board edges, foxing on top block, endpapers offset, an excellent copy; in very good illustrated, unclipped [16s] dustjacket, two significant 11cm long tears to front panel [largely repaired but with remnant tape marks verso from previous repair], rubbed on edges, slightly chipped at spine top, appears excellent in plastic sleeve
• Hesse’s first novel [published in German in 1904]
• Hermann Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946 [after publication of The Glass Bead Game]
• Dustjacket design by F.W. Lambert