NACHTS UNTER DER STEINERNEN BRÜCKE. EIN ROMAN AUS DEM ALTEN PRAG. [Frankfurt a.M.]: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, [1953]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-237 [238] [239: blank] [240: ad] [note: first leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in light blue and gold. First edition. In 1953 Perutz published what is considered by some his masterpiece: NACHTS UNTER DER STEINEREN BRUCKE, a cycle of wonderfully interconnected stories and legends that conjure up once more the Prague of Rudolf II, the mad Hapsburg Emperor, and the High Rabbi Loew. Perutz paints vividly the life of the time ... [His] novel evokes the medieval mysticism of Prague as no other novel has done." - Franz Rottensteiner, "German-Language Fantasy Since 1900," Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature V, p. 2408. Translated into English by Eric Mosbacher as BY NIGHT UNDER THE STONE BRIDGE (London: Collins Harvill, 1989). A very good copy in good dust jacket with wear, shallow loss and short closed tears at edges. (#152273).
Price: $350.00
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