Kurt Wolfe, A Portrait in Essays and Letters
Wolfe, Kurt; (edited by Michael Ermarth)
Language: English
Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1991
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- Hardcover
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Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1991. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a Book Club edition. Not price clipped (24.95). A few words underlined (on 4 pages only) else Fine condition. Dust Jacket corners are tape reinforced. Frontispiece portrait and a few other illustrations. Essays by this important German publisher. The final third of the book consists of correspondence from Gunter Grass, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Boris Pasternak, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Edited and with a Foreword by Michael Ermarth. Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider. Laid in the New York Times Book review. Has a Kurt Wolfe Bibliography. Selected Titles from the Publishing Houses of Kurt Wolfe. Glossary of Selected Names. Index . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Good dust jacket. 8vo. xxviii, 223pp .
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- Title
- Kurt Wolfe, A Portrait in Essays and Letters
- Author
- Wolfe, Kurt; (edited by Michael Ermarth)
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Near Fine condition
- Dust jacket
- Good dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226905519
- ISBN 13
- 9780226905518
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Books about Books, Literature / Literary Biography / Criticism
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"Pure oxygen and nutrition for exhausted and demoralized editors and publishers. One of the prophetic publishers of the century . . . Kurt Wolff instances in these modest reminiscences and correspondence with authors (Kafka, Werfel, Kraus, Rilke, Mann, Pasternak, Grass, et al.) the vision and devotion that bound them to him and that made him--the secret of his calling--'synonymous with his work.'"--Nation
"This beautifully designed, lovingly printed book is a bouillabaisse of memorabilia, containing historic-quality letters and poems and rich excerpts from published works. It provides a fine bouquet of examples of the cultural and literary delights Wolff's imprint guaranteed. . . . This is a highly personal, sentimental, enriching book and many admirers of Pantheon--with which Kurt Wolff was long associated--will find it meaningful and revealing. Sentimentalists will be pleased to find the famous Lou Andreas-Salomé here. And the special section entitled 'Adventures in Publishing' will offer a surprise with the appearance of James Joyce. As for the section headed 'On Luring Away Authors, ' it is virtually worth the price of the book to all editors."--Washington Post
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