Steppenwolf. Herman Hesse. First American Edition. 1929, Henry Holt Company.
Hardcover without dust jacket, likely issued without. Black boards with red writing on spine. Book is in good condition with some wear on the front and back covers. There is a scratch on top of front cover. A pen mark on one of the pages but otherwise pages are clean and tightly bound.
Originally published in 1927, Steppenwolf is the tenth novel by renowned German author Hermann Hesse, who is also celebrated for his work Siddartha.
The novel delves deeply into Hesse’s spiritual crisis, as portrayed through the eyes of the protagonist in a manuscript-style narrative.
The story oscillates between meditations on the protagonist’s struggles with bourgeois society and themes of loneliness, division, elitism, and suicidal ideation.
This particular copy is the highly sought-after First American Edition, published in 1929.
More scarce than any other edition, there are no identical copies available online.
Likely issued without a dust jacket, this rare edition was printed in a limited run by the Henry Holt Company in New York City. Its production was probably halted by the onset of the Great Depression in 1929.
