The Glass Bead Game
by Hesse, Herman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 003084066X
- ISBN 13
- 9780030840661
- Seller
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Highland, New York, United States
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About This Item
USA: Holt Rinehart Winston. Good with no dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 003084066X . Foxing to exterior edge of pages and prelims. Personal plate inside the front cover with written date. Fading (sunning) to spine. No writing or major defects. Otherwise in good condition.; Magister Ludi; 558 pages .
Synopsis
The Glass Bead Game is the last work and magnum opus of the German author Hermann Hesse. Begun in 1931 and published in Switzerland in 1943, after being rejected for publication in Germany, the book was mentioned in Hesse's citation for the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- True Oak Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TOB217-33587-A-0.50
- Title
- The Glass Bead Game
- Author
- Hesse, Herman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 003084066X
- ISBN 13
- 9780030840661
- Publisher
- Holt Rinehart Winston
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- 003084066X
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In order to remain competitive with low value books and be able to offer them, we have a tiered shipping system to make low price transactions economically sound. Lower value books will ship in a protective bubble mailer, as 99% of these reach the customer without problems. We go beyond this for higher ticket items and provide box service. If your post office handles books roughly, you can request cardboard/box service for lower value items as well.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Plate
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