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?Die Handlung des Zweiten Teils von Göethes Faust Akademische Antrittsvorlesung? translated loosely as ?The Plot of the Second Part of Goethe's Faust?. The Academic Inaugural Lecture, by Georg Witkowski. This is the First Edition, published in 1898 by Dr. Seele & Co. in Leipzig, Germany. The text is entirely in modern German. The book is in paperback format. This is an x-library volume, having been officially removed from the collection of a college library and so marked.
The book has an inked inscription in a cursive hand, which I cannot fully make out. A Professor Friedberg is mentioned - and a name which seems to be Hofusser (?). The inscription is dated 8 - 4 - 1898.
Georg Witkowski was a Jewish professor and scholar of German literary history, focussing on Göethe, Schiller, Lessing, and Arthur Schnitzler. He was an important influence on Thomas Mann. Witkowski was also the cofounder and Chairman of the Society of Bibliophiles, and editor of the Magazine for Book Lovers? (?Jahrbuch für Bücherfreunde? - still being published). Von Hindenburg awarded him the Göethe Medal for Art and Science in 1932, but in 1933 his pension was denied because of the Civil Service Act, and he was harassed and eventually the Nazis arrested him, claiming that he had received letters of subversive intent. He was released, emigrated to Leiden, the Netherlands, where he died in 1939.
SERIES : Hochschul Dorträge für Jedermann
SUB - SERIES : Akademische Antrittsvorlesung [ The Academic Inaugural Lecture ]
TITLE : Die Handlung des Zweiten Teils von Goethes Faust [ ?The Plot of the Second Part of Göethe's Faust? ]
AUTHOR : Georg Witkowski (1863 - 1939)
IMPRINT : Dr. Seele & Company
PLACE : Leipzig, Germany
PRINTER : Illgner & Enslin, Leipzig
DATE : 1898
EDITION : First Edition
STATUS : Out of Print - OP
PROVENANCE : Deaccessioned Library book ; X - LIBRARY
PHYSICAL DETAILS : Scholarly Monograph, paperback format. 46 PAGES; 6? X 9 1/8?; printed wraps, glued; publisher?s listed printed on rear cover; no lettering on spine.
CONDITION -- GOOD ONLY -- This book was previously owned by a college library, from which it has been officially deaccessioned, and with the inked catalog number and discard stamp at the top corner of the front cover, and the following particulars ::
EXTERIOR : Spine is rubbed. Modest weathering about edges and to spine. A serious impact has creased the foot of the spine; evidence of mending to cover attachment at spine; fore-edge corner tips bumped with attendant creasing and loss to bottom fore-edge corner tip; moderate surface rub - a few smudges and ink smears; nicking and small tears about the edges ; one instance of small loss to top edge of rear cover.
BINDING : Solid as can be expected. No leaves are detached or loose.
INTERIOR : Most of the leaves are bumped and creased at the top and bottom fore-edge corners; I spotted at least two minute inked bits of marginalia ( a | )with accompanying mark to text, correcting the spelling in the text. There are scattered small smudges and the sort, but the interior is else clean and presentable.
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