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Published by Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, Germany/Deutschland, 1957
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 77 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dj. Text in German. Small tear on top of spine. Slightly bumped cover board corners.
Published by Erschienen Im Insel-Verlag, Weisbaden, Germany/ BR Deutschland, 1954
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 77 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dj. Text in German. Light foxing on page edges.
Published by Holt, c.1949,, 1949
Seller: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, U.S.A.
hardcover, Condition: poor, Holt, NY, c.1949, 8vo., cloth, 502pp., spine detached along rear hinge & re-glued, frayed spine caps & corners, upper outer corner of rear cover badly chewed, slightly affecting corner margin of text, covers poor, text itself about G $.
Published by F. Ungar Pub. Co, New York, 1967
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very good. 11th printing. Quarto in white stiff paper wraps; 502 pages ; 21 cm. Sewn binding. Nice early paperback condition printed on quality paper stock. Ungar paperbacks; 2117; [series]. "Translated from the German original Das Glasperlenspiel." Set in the 23rd century, "The glass bead game" (Magister Ludi) the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game Enlightenment (Buddhism) -- Fiction. Science fiction, German. Jeux psychologiques -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Illumination (Bouddhisme) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Science fiction, German. Enlightenment (Buddhism) Psychological games. Fiction. Bildungsromans. Bildungsromans. Very good to very goo(+) with mild wear & use. Tight and clean.
Published by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., New York, 1949
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 502 pp. Tightly bound copy with clean and crisp pages. Clean text. Minimal external wear with cuts in places. Creased spine.
Published by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., New York, 1967
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 502 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Spine cover lightly detached from spine. Ex-University-Library (The Wollman Library, Barnard College)-Book with all the typical signs (stamps, stickers, and envelopes, etc.). No jacket.
Blue hardback cloth cover. First Edition. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 502pp. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Cover lightly rubbed.
Published by Henry Holt & Company, Inc, New York, 1949
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 1949. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 502 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in white. Price-clipped dust jacket edgeworn with a few minor nicks; general rubbing; ghost of a sticker to front flap. Boards show light shelfwear and top corners slightly bumped. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of Hesse's final novel, originally published just before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.