Poems by Herman Hesse

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21.8 cm), [xiv], 79pp. Publisher's dust jacket intact with price ($4.95). Boards full bound in black cloth with gilt stamping on front and spine. Red topstain; fore-edge deckled; red-orange endsheets. Dust jacket lightly soiled with toning at the margins. All margins and spine ends bumped and creased with a few minor tears. Verso shows discoloration at top margin, from what looks like water staining. Boards slightly soiled with discoloration at top margin. Board corners and spine ends bumped. Some loss to head of spine exposing spine material. Front endsheets have pencil markings: some present, some erased. Pages considerably toned but relatively clean. A Very Good copy in a Very Good jacket.

[Mileck IX, A-102c].