[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed First Edition of Herman Hesse's scarce second book

[Charles Agvent]

HESSE, Hermann. EINE STUNDE HINTER MITTERNACHT. Leipzig: Eugen 
Diederichs, 1899. First Edition. Original printed wraps with the front 
cover neatly and professionally reattached. The Nobel Prize winner's 
very scarce second book, written when he was 22 and working in a 
bookstore. Most copies seem to have been rebound in cloth and boards due 
to the fragile original binding. With a four-line INSCRIPTION in German 
by the author dated August 1906 and SIGNED in full. The inscription 
refers to the place that served as the setting for the stories of the 
book and is the location where Hesse inscribed the volume. Books 
inscribed by the author of STEPPENWOLF and SIDDHARTHA are decidedly 
uncommon.  Light chipping to the spine tips. Near Fine in a handsome and 
recent burgundy half morocco box.                     $2,500.00	

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