Wandering: Notes and Sketches (First UK Edition)

Very Good condition used 1972 First Print UK Edition Hardback with intact Dust Jacket. Published by Jonathan Cape, London. Author: Hermann Hesse. Translator: James Wright. Jacket Design: Alan Tunbridge. ISBN: 0224008048. Approx. dims: 225mm h x 145mm w x 18mm d. Intact clean condition dust jacket within removeable protective Mylar sleeve, with slight rubbing and slight signs of handling. Dust Jacket inside leaves clipped to corners, but original price is intact. Intact DJ spine. DJ over very good condition grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 109 clean slightly tanned inside pages of English text with some b&w illustrations, no inscriptions. Page ends stained blue to top and slightly tanned to vertical and underside. Image shown is actual book for sale. Synopsis: This is the first British edition of the synthesis of prose, poetry, and watercolour sketches, which was one of Hesse's favourite books. On May 2, 1919, Hesse wrote to Romain Rolland: "I have had to bear a very heavy burden in my personal life in recent years. Now I am about to go to Ticino once again, to live for a while as a hermit in nature and in my work." In 1920, after settling in the Ticino mountain village of Montagnola, he published Wandering, a love letter to this magic-garden world that can be read as a meditation on his attempt to begin a new life. His pure prose, his heartfelt lyricism, and his love for the old earth, for its blessings that renew themselves, all sing in this serene book.…