Frost.
Frankfurt, Insel, 1963.
8vo. 358 pp. Original cloth with blue spine label.
€ 3,500.00
First edition of Bernhard's first novel. Punningly inscribed to the Hamburg pianist Ingrid Bülau, who had studied with him at the Mozarteum in Salzburg: "Im Auto / vom Autor / für Ingrid / Thomas / Jänner 64 / Hbg." - Provenance: from the estate of the Frankfurt lawyer Wilhelm A. Schaaf (1929-2015), a specialist in economic, commercial and insolvency law.
References
WG (2. ed.) 7.