1953, ISBN: 06c21de195af236a2ed54f923520a8c2

Near Fine, [PU: Seeker & Warburg, London], Jacket, First Edition in English, published by Seeker & Warburg in 3 volumes, 1953, 1954, 1960. Originally published in German between 1932 and … More...

Near Fine, [PU: Seeker & Warburg, London], Jacket, First Edition in English, published by Seeker & Warburg in 3 volumes, 1953, 1954, 1960. Originally published in German between 1932 and 1942. Original gilt green and brown cloth in all three volumes. First dust jacket, volume 1 is green, 2nd and 3rd volumes are blond. Dust jacket has edgewear; very minor soil, else very good. Musil's 3 volume trilogy is considered a masterpiece of Modern Fiction. The first two volumers were completed in his lifetime, the thrid volume, unpublished at the time of his death, composed of all his manusripts for the final volume of the trilogy. Only his premature death in Geneva in 1942, a victim of the Anschlauz of Hitler and Nazism. His novels were censored by the Nazi regime of Hitler from 1933-1945. He would have become a Nobel laureate if not for his premature death. Robert Musil (6 November 1880 - 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels. Number 1 on Literaturhaus München and Bertelsmann's Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century., Books<

1960, ISBN: 06c21de195af236a2ed54f923520a8c2

London: Secker & Warburg, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First English-language editions, first printings. (Precedes the American edition.) In three volumes. Very … More...

London: Secker & Warburg, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First English-language editions, first printings. (Precedes the American edition.) In three volumes. Very Good overall with dust jackets. First volume has name on ffep, spine pane a bit darkened, small stains to front panel, price-clipped. Second volume jacket lightly foxed. Third volume has name on ffep, some mottling to cloth, darkened spine panel, and wear to jacket. An attractive set of the Austrian writer's unfinished masterpiece Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften in the English language. Translated from the German by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser., Secker & Warburg, 1960, 3<

1960, ISBN: 06c21de195af236a2ed54f923520a8c2

Hardcover

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 55.24], [PU: Secker & Warburg, London], Jacket, First English-language editions, first printings. (Precedes the American edition.) In three volumes. Ve… More...

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 55.24], [PU: Secker & Warburg, London], Jacket, First English-language editions, first printings. (Precedes the American edition.) In three volumes. Very Good overall with dust jackets. First volume has name on ffep, spine pane a bit darkened, small stains to front panel, price-clipped. Second volume jacket lightly foxed. Third volume has name on ffep, some mottling to cloth, darkened spine panel, and wear to jacket. An attractive set of the Austrian writer's unfinished masterpiece Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften in the English language. Translated from the German by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser.<

1960, ISBN: 06c21de195af236a2ed54f923520a8c2

London: Secker & Warburg, 1953/1954/1960. First English Editions; three volumes. The first one is fine in a dust jacket with very light wear; the second is fine in a price-clipped dust j… More...

London: Secker & Warburg, 1953/1954/1960. First English Editions; three volumes. The first one is fine in a dust jacket with very light wear; the second is fine in a price-clipped dust jacket; the third volume is fine in dust jacket. Posthumously issued in English, this novel is generally conceded to be his masterpiece. His work was banned by the Nazis (apparently his fellow Austrian, Adolph Hitler, was less than enthusiastic regarding his work), and with his Jewish wife fled into exile in Switzerland, where he passed away in 1942., Secker & Warburg, 1953/1954/1960, 5<

1953, ISBN: 06c21de195af236a2ed54f923520a8c2

New York: Coward McCann, 1953. First American Edition, stated. Hardcover 8vo, red cloth with decorative emblem stamped to cover, gilt lettering to spine, 365 pp. Good, tight square bindi… More...

New York: Coward McCann, 1953. First American Edition, stated. Hardcover 8vo, red cloth with decorative emblem stamped to cover, gilt lettering to spine, 365 pp. Good, tight square binding, clean leaves, chipping to extremities of spine/Good unclipped jacket, heavy edgewear and chipping, faded spine, soiling, creasing, rubbing throughout. Jacket Design by Edward J. Widmayer. First American Edition of the first volume of Musil's widely celebrated magnum opus., Coward McCann, 1953, 2.5<