THE GLASS BEAD GAME
HESSE, Hermann.
Das Glasperlenspiel.
Zurich, Fretz und Wasmuth Verlag, 1943.
2 vols., 8vo, pp. 452, 442; a very good copy in the original pale blue cloth gilt, with the rare original printed dust-jackets, spines of jackets lightly browned with some slight wear at edges; with the bookplate and signature of Swedish psychiatrist Börje Cronholm.
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Das Glasperlenspiel.
First edition of Hesse's last, quintessential work. It occupied him for eleven years, and was published in 1943, the year in which Hesse's name was placed on the black-list of authors in Germany.
Wilpert/Gühring 251.
