[Rarebooks] FS: True First Edition of SIDDHARTHA by Herman Hesse, SIGNED, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $7500 NET

HESSE, Herman. SIDDHARTHA. EINE INDISCHE DICHTUNG. Berlin: S. Fischer, 
1922. First Edition. Thin octavo (5-3/4" x 8-3/4") bound in the 
publisher's heavy brown wraps with black lettering on the front cover 
and a later cloth tape hand-lettered spine; [1-8], 9-146, [-147], [1, 
blank], [2, publisher's ads]. The true First Edition with the text in 
German of one of this Nobel Prize winner's two famous and important 
novels, the other being of course STEPPENWOLF. This copy is SIGNED in 
ink by the author with a brief inscription on the front endpaper. Hesse 
based this book on the early life of Gautama Buddha. The story of a son 
rebelling against his father's teaching and traditions and eventually 
finding true enlightenment resonated with those maturing in the 1960s 
and 1970s making this title something of a cult classic. It was made 
into a beautiful film in 1972 by Conrad Rooks. Owner name of George 
Goetz dated 1939 on the front endpaper well above Hesse's inscription 
with a small stain at the bottom corner well below Hesse's inscription. 
A few marginal pencil notations, likely by Goetz. Some aging to the 
paper but at least Very Good and very scarce when signed.

George Goetz was a Danish Jew living in Sweden because of persecution. 
He maintained a correspondence with Hesse, only recently discovered, 
from 1939 to 1951. Their letters discussed everything from the trivial 
to Hesse's work and its place in Nazi Germany. One common point of 
interest was the German-Jewish philosopher Constantin Brunner (Goetz 
would later become President of International Constantin Brunner 
Institute.). This book as well as several other titles inscribed to 
Goetz were discovered with the letters and is now being offered for 
public sale for the first time. (#017821)        $10,000.00

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