The Golem

by Gustav Meyrink

translated by Madge Pemberon 

First North American edition.  Boston and New York:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Purple covers have gray pattern and black ink title. 
• Boards show some wear, smudges, edgewear.  Corners are worn and frayed, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine has black text and is sunned, with crushed, frayed ends.  See photos.
• Binding has a little play, some separation showing at half-title page, page 256-257.  See photos. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some staining, library stamps.  
• Frontispiece is present.
• Ex-library book with stamps at front and rear feps. 
• Interior is uniformly tanned, with smudges and some stains, a few fold-downs at page corners, a stamp on page 115.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have publisher's ink at head, a few stains.  See photos. 
• PS2024.1112

288 pages. 5 x 7 3/8 inches

A modern supernatural retelling by Gustav Meyrink (1869-1932) of an ancient folktale, originally published in serialized form prior to appearing in book form (Leipzig, 1915).  Translated into English by Madge Pemberton.

First American Edition (from British sheets) of Meyrink's first book in its initial appearance in English, in original publisher's black-stamped patterned purple cloth boards with the inserted frontispiece not appearing in the UK issue.    

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