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THE MARQUISE OF O AND OTHER STORIES
by Heinrich Von Kleist
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Criterion Books. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good+ dust jacket. Small open tears on panel corners and spine crown. Small closed tears on top and bottom front and rear panel and spine heel. Light shelfwear on panels and spine. Light foxing on side text block edge. .
Synopsis
David Luke was born in 1921 and is Tutor in German at Christ Church, Oxford. He has published articles and essays on German literature and various prose and verse translations, including Goethe’s Selected Verse (1964) for the Penguin Poets, Kleist’s The Marquise of O and Other Stories (1978) for the Penguin Classics, Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kröger and Other Stories (1970) and Goethe’s Roman Elegies (1977). Nigel Reeves was born in 1939 and graduated at Worcester College, Oxford, in 1963, taking his D.Phil. in 1970. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Tübingen and, since 1975, has been Professor of German at the University of Surrey. He is also Head of Department of Linguistic and International Studies there, and Dean of the Faculty of Human Studies. He has translated stories by Kleist and Keller for the Penguin Book of German Stories and has published monographs on Heinrich Heine and Friedrich Schiller. Nigel Reeves was born in 1939 and graduated at Worcester College, Oxford, in 1963, taking his D.Phil. in 1970. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Tübingen and, since 1975, has been Professor of German at the University of Surrey. He is also Head of Department of Linguistic and International Studies there, and Dean of the Faculty of Human Studies. He has translated stories by Kleist and Keller for the Penguin Book of German Stories and has published monographs on Heinrich Heine and Friedrich Schiller.
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- Rare Book Cellar
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 309694
- Title
- THE MARQUISE OF O AND OTHER STORIES
- Author
- Heinrich Von Kleist
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Criterion Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
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- Good+
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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