![]() ![]() Jorge Louis Borges called it "a remarkable work of horror, half-way between Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein," and H.P. An immediate success, Der Golem sold over 200,000 copies during its first year of publication. Near Fine with light soiling to boards, light foxing to front paste down and light toning to pages, else a rather sharp copy indeed.Īn immensely important and influential modernist fantasy novel, written by a contemporary of Franz Kafka, whose literary masterpiece The Metamorphosis was published at nearly the same time and even by the same publisher as Meyrink's Der Golem. Bound in publisher's red paper-covered boards over white cloth spine with titles printed in black text in German. Signed by Gustav Meyrink on the front free endpaper. First edition, first impression title page dated 1916 and copyright page dated 1915 as called for. ![]()
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