A SUITE OF EIGHT WOODCUTS TO ILLUSTRATE STEPPENWOLF BY HERMANN HESSE 1979 Limited Editions Lbc

N Y: The Limited Editions Club By the Print Club of New York. Fine with no dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE Binding; Art; Tint; A SUITE OF EIGHT WOODCUTS TO ILLUSTRATE STEPPENWOLF BY HERMANN HESSE 1979 Here first printed directly from the block. Limited edition of this series of woodcuts, number 125 of 200 individually numbered and signed by the Helmut Ackermann. Plates are loose as issued in cloth folder with ties. Printed separately from the 1977 book edition which offered the woodcuts in black-and-white only; this was specially created by Ackermann for members of The Limited Editions Club by The Print Club of New York. New York, 1979. This publication marked Ackermann's first appearance as a book illustrator in America. "Steppenwolf" (orig. German "Der Steppenwolf") is the tenth novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse. Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929. Combining autobiographical and psychoanalytic elements, the novel was named after the lonesome wolf of the steppes. The story in large part reflects a profound crisis in Hesse's spiritual world in the 1920s while memorably portraying the protagonist's split between his humanity and his wolf-like aggression and homelessness. FINE condition with contents FINE. ; Signed by Illustrator .