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New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co, 1967. 11th printing. Paperback. Very good to very goo(+) with mild wear & use. Tight and clean.. Quarto in white stiff paper wraps; 502 pages; 21 cm. Sewn binding. Nice early paperback condition printed on quality paper stock. Ungar paperbacks; 2117; [series]. "Translated from the German original Das Glasperlenspiel." Set in the 23rd century, "The glass bead game" (Magister Ludi) the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game Enlightenment (Buddhism) -- Fiction. Science fiction, German. Jeux psychologiques -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Illumination (Bouddhisme) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Science fiction,…
Read More Magister Ludi [original title Das Glasperlenspiel; alt. title The Glass Bead Game] by Hermann Hesse; Mervyn Savill [trans.] - 1949
by Hermann Hesse; Mervyn Savill [trans.]
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Magister Ludi [original title Das Glasperlenspiel; alt. title The Glass Bead Game]
by Hermann Hesse; Mervyn Savill [trans.]
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New York: Henry Holt & Company, Inc, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 1949. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 502 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in white. Price-clipped dust jacket edgeworn with a few minor nicks; general rubbing; ghost of a sticker to front flap. Boards show light shelfwear and top corners slightly bumped. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of Hesse's final novel, originally published just before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.
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- Publisher Henry Holt & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1949
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Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game); [by] Hermann Hesse; translated from the German by Mervyn Savill
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Magister Ludi
by Hesse, Hermann; Savill, Mervyn [tr.]
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London: Aldus Publications Ltd. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Cover lightly rubbed. 1949. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 502pp. .
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