Playing With Love (Liebelei) / The Prologue to Anatol
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., [1914]. Very Good. Item #13028
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., [1914]. First American Edition. Small, slim octavo; publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt; ix,[1],101pp. Cloth a bit toned at extremities, corners and spine ends bumped, spine gilt significantly dulled, else Very Good overall, internally clean and sound.
English-language translation of Schnitzler's popular play (later turned libretto), first produced in Vienna in 1895 under the original German title Liebelei. Text is preceded by the lengthy poem "Prologue to Anatol" by von Hofmannsthal.
Price: $45.00
See all items by Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, P. Morton Shand, Trevor Blakemore, trans.