Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von and Josef Weisz Title: Faust: Tragodie Von Goethe, Volume II
Description: Munich, Germany, Hugo Schmidt Verlag, 1920. Hardcover. cream & light pink vellum boards w/ debossed trim & gilt design; gilt spine printing & bands. 236 pgs w/ 23 original lithographs. top edge gilt. green ribbon bookmark. red slipcase w/ spine title plate. Curling to boards is typical of aging vellum. Wonderfully illustrated by renowed Munich artist Josef Weisz. A beautiful presentation of Goethe's classic. This is copy 143 of 150. Slipcase has rough edge-wear, rubbed and torn corners, segment missing to lower panel edge. VG- (scuffs & smudges to board. curling to boards. light rippling to textblock/pgs. foxing to textblock edges; instances of speckled foxing to pg edges. black spot of ink/soiling to cover pastedown; front endpaper creased) .
Keywords: Goethe, Faust, Faustus, Doctor Faustus, Josef Weisz ; Goethe, Faust, Faustus, Doctor Faustus ; ;
Price: US$ 200.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 183227