SEVEN LEGENDS ... Authorized (and First) Translation from the 56th German Edition by Martin Wyness, with an Introduction by Richard M. Meyer. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, n.d. [1912]. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-xii [1-5] 6-105 [106-108: blank] 109-112: publisher's ads, original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. Seven short stories, many featuring idealized virginal maidens. Made up from the sheets of the 1911 Gowans & Gray edition. The first book of their "Caviare Series" -- designed to publish "books that have become standard in the literatures of foreign countries ... which can be most fully enjoyed by the reader of wide culture and cultivated taste." With a six-page introduction by the translator. "A Legend of the Dance" is about a young woman who loves to dance, until she is convinced by King David that she can dance in heaven if she gives up dancing on earth; later, the Nine Muses of classical antiquity are banished from the Christian paradise. Morgan, A Critical Bibliography of German Literature in English Translation 4918 (ranking the translation as superior). Cloth rubbed, a sound, good copy. (#161814).
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