Steppenwolf [1st English translation]
$1,750.00 inc GST
By Hermann Hesse
First English translation [1929] in rare dustwrapper
Out of stock
Description
- First English translation [Secker, London, 1929] of Hermann Hesse’s classic semi-autobiographical novel
- Octavo; 322 pages + advertisements; light foxing, mainly to edges; extremities a little rubbed with cloth rubbed through at top of spine.
- With the very scarce jacket [price-clipped; creased and chipped (with minor loss) predominantly to top of spine and less so to base and other extremities; neat 18mm tear to the top corner; spine darkened].
- Published originally in Hesse’s native German in 1927 [this translation into English by Basil Creighton], Steppenwolf is an enduring classic and one of the great philosophical novels in modern Literature.