Siddhartha. Eine indische Dichtung.
8vo (152 x 224 mm). 146, (6) pp. Slightly later black quarter cloth using the original printed orange cover boards. Top edge tinted.
€ 850.00
First edition. This first issue of the regular edition was produced in 6000 copies; during the author's lifetime the entire press run would number 150,000 copies. As early as 1923, Hesse had writtten to Johannes Kleinpaul: "I consider Siddhartha my most valuable book". Today it counts among "the most widely read works of the 20th century - including translations, the press run is in the double-digit millions" (cf. KNLL).
Armorial bookplate of the Eyring family from Ebersdorf (Thuringia) on front pastedown: "Friedel Eyring, 1572".
Insignificant foxing to front flyleaf; lower free endpaper slightly wrinkled. Spine rebound in black cloth with original printed spine laid down, otherwise very well preserved.
Mileck II, 43. Waibler E 170. Kliemann/Silomon 41. WG² 122. KNLL VII, 802.
