Josef Weinheber, Geschichte Seines Lebens Und Seiner Dichtung

Salzburg: O. Müller, 1952. Octavo in blue cloth with gilt titles in black and white dust jacket with b&w photo of Weinheber; color frontispiece; b&w illus.; 446-447 pp., 22 cm. Fine copy in very good dust jacket. May be ex-library (Austrian Cultural Forum (New York, NY) bookplate on front paste-down; DJ is moderately worn around the edges with some half-inch closed tear along top edge on cover and one-inch closed tear at cover fold along lower open edge; other smaller tears though DJ is solidly in one piece with some mild shelf-rubbing to blank rear; some glue moisture seeping through on front and rear paste-down (bindery flaw); else excellent copy; boards are clean and free of bumps and rubbing; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks, creases and foxing; clean edges with no remainder marks or foxing. A gently used copy. in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover.

In German. Scarce in jacket. Josef Weinheber was an Austrian lyric poet, narrative writer and essayist.