WOLFGANG GOETHE. Authorized Translation From The Danish By Allen W. Porterfield. TWO VOLUME SET. ~SIGNED COPY~

Brandes, Georg

Published by NY. MCMXXV (1925). Greenberg / Frank~Maurice, Inc.

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reddish brown decorative (spines) cloth hardcover 8vos. (octavos). no dustwrappers. fine cond. bindings square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings except for translator's inscribed and dated signature on front flyleaf of volume 1 & tiny name label of previous owner (whom the book is inscribed to). nice clean set. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (same date on title & copyright page, no additional printings indicated). SIGNED on the front flyeaf of Volume 1 with a dated inscription by the Translator. deckled foredges. 503 +499p. index for both at end of volume 2. biography. german literature. german history. ~ from the INTRODUCTION ~ NOTHING can seem more superfluous than the publication of still another book on Goethe, a great many more having already been written on him than he himself produced with all his diligence. It must be borne in mind, however, that one does not do this for Goethe's sake but for one's own sake: It is done with the idea of assembling the impressions that have come down from a mind studied interest in which has been a lifelong affair. Goethe was the greatest poet of the last three centuries. But it is not the poet alone in him that fascinates and captivates. For the mere poetic factor in its complete isolation has perchance been somewhat overestimated in our day excluding as it does at times neither mental indigence nor spiritual immaturity and rudeness. It is Goethe as a natural and spiritual force, and as a profoundly human and magnificent personality, that one studies out of necessity and with satisfaction. His mind had its limitations just as his character had its defects; yet we are justified in calling him the incarnation of humanity at its loftiest. To his mind nothing was foreign. He was more superbly endowed than any of his predecessors for several centuries back; he was more epoch~making than any of his contemporaries; he was more highly gifted than his successors. He was a type and a model by virtue of his many~sidedness and because of the complete fullness of his nature.". Seller Inventory # 1142101

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Title: WOLFGANG GOETHE. Authorized Translation From...

Publisher: NY. MCMXXV (1925). Greenberg / Frank~Maurice, Inc.

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition