Complete Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (10 volumes)
GOETHE
From The Bark of the Beech Tree, Depoe Bay, OR, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since June 13, 2011
Quantity: 1From The Bark of the Beech Tree, Depoe Bay, OR, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since June 13, 2011
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Complete 10-volume set of this nicely produced complete Goethe. Undated, but probably 1909. Half red leather with marbled paper sides. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed (very rough cut so some leaves may be unopened). Thick boards. All have two-color frontispiece illustrations by different, uncredited hands, with tissue guards. All with some shelfwear to bottom edges. Some fading of spines. Some volumes are slightly cracked in the prelims, but all textblocks are tight and secure. A very good set. The details are: Volumes 1 and 2: Autobiography Parts 1 and 2. Translated by John Oxenford. Lengthy Introduction by Thomas Carlyle. 13-page biography of Goethe. Volume 3: The Sorrows of Werther; The Elective Affinities; The Good Women; A Tale. Translated by Bayard Taylor. (Line down spine, chipping at base of spine.) Volume 4: Letters from Switzerland; Travels in Italy. Translated by Rev.A.J.W. Morrison. (Top of spine with chip missing, leather torn on edge of spine.) Volume 5: Poems. (Spine ends a little worn and nicked.) Volume 6: Iphigenia in Tauris; Torquato Tasso; Goetz von Berlichingen; The Fellow-Citizen. Translated by Sir Walter Scott, E.A. Bowring and Anna Swanwick. (Top of spine chipped.) Volume 7: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Translated by Thomas Carlyle. (Spine ends nicked.) Volume 8: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels; The Recreations of the German Emigrants. Translated by Thomas Carlyle. Volume 9: The Tragedy of Faust. Translated by Anna Swanwick. (Pieces missing from spine ends, one corner worn through.) Volume 10: Dramatic Works. (The tissue guard has lifted a small part of the print - the word "Faust", from the title page.) All in all a very nice set of this rare edition of Goethe's works. JS. Seller Inventory # 002608
Bibliographic Details
Title: Complete Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
Publisher: Collier, U.S.
Publication Date: 1909
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Various
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First edition thus
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