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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. The author's Utopian masterpiece and one of the outstanding works of 20th century European literature. The basis for Hesse's 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. First US edition, first printing of the novel "Das Glasperlenspiel" in an English translation by Mervyn Savill. Published a full 20 years before the more recent translation by Richard and Clara Winston. There is no "First Edition" statement, because the book was printed using British sheets. The copyright page states "Copyright 1949 by Francis Aldor 2 Mount Row, London, W.1" with the name and address of the London printer at bottom of the page. No additional printings are noted. The book is near fine in full black cloth. Clean, tight, no markings. The unfaded black jacket is very good, price-intact, with some shallow chipping at the extremities. Included with the book is a printed invoice from prestigious Heritage Book Shop of Los Angeles dated 1996 when the book sold for $250.00. Hesse won the Nobel Prize for this work and others such as Demian, Steppenwolf and Siddhartha. He was a friend of Carl Jung. Scarce in this condition, a nice item for the Hesse collector. See photos.…