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Star of the Unborn: Available Copies

Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Wear to covers and spine. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Bantam Books, 1976. 12 mo. Paperback. Book is good with shelf wear, creases to covers and price scratched out on front and spine. A scarce copy of this vintage novel from Werfel. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Inventory = B; 645 Pages; 720 Grams; By the Author of the Song of Bernadette; Science Fiction novel first published in 1946. Blue Cloth Boards with Gold Titles on cover and spine The story is set in a utopian future and follows the protagonist, who awakens in this new world after a long sleep. The novel explores themes of human nature, society, and the potential for a better future. Dust Jacket = Creasing to covers, Chipping to edges of DJ, Magic Tape Repairs inside the DJ, 1-3/4" x 3" Piece Missing at bottom of spine to DJ, staining to DJ, thus Fair. Book = Name Written at top of inside front cover, Minor Staining to right edge of Book, Moderate Spotting Stains to spine and back cover and spine, splitting to front end pages near spine, re-glued; thus Very Good Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

8vo; gray cloth boards; red rectangular boxes contain title and author names; 645 pp; final book by Werfel; published poshumously; catagorized as philosophical science fiction based on a critique of modernity. Werfel was a member of a writers group which included Kafka and Max Brod. very good; light rubbing to board edges and spine ends; previous owner's name on front flyleaf; light pencil underlining of text in chapter 26, the last chapter of the book. all else-clean, tight, and attractive

Star of the Unborn

Minor edge and spine rubbing, one inch long tape repaired closed tear on the lower rear edge with a two faint, short creases near the same edge. A few small imperfections to the lightly tanned edges. Spine is straight, binding square and tight, text clean. A Very nice copy.

In Excellent Condition This Mass Market Paperback Is A Bantam First Edition, Tight And Unmarked, Very Slight Aging To Pages. Illustrated Cover With Only Minor Wear, Small Dog Ear To Bottom Right Corner, No Reading Creases On Spine And Only Minor Rubbing To Edges. In Excellent Condition.

Octavo; dust jacket heavily chipped along spine and front flap; repaired with masking tape; Fair, in mylar. Blue boards with gilt-stamped title and red blocking; corners slightly bumped; red top stain; tight binding, clean throughout. VG. Written in German near the end of Werfel's life, "Star of the Unborn" is a work of science fiction translated into English by Gustave O. Arlt and first published by The Viking Press in 1946. It was Werfel's final novel, published posthumously. Werfel, a widely renowned Jewish Austrian-Bohemian playwright, poet and novelist, left Germany in 1933 after his books were burned by the Nazis. He and his wife fled first to Austria, then France following the German annexation of Austria in 1938; and finally to the United States. He was best known for "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh", a novel which drew international attention to the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. .

Dust Jacket not price clipped $3, Some chips out of spine small tear front cover, now in protective cover. Pictures on request

gr.-8°. X, 645 S. OLn. Ecken u. Kap. bestos. EA vgl. W.-G. 64. - Englischsprachige Erstausgabe des posthum erschienenen Science-fiction-Romans Franz Werfels (1890-1945). "Stern der Ungeborenen" ist 1946 zunächst auf Deutsch bei Bermann-Fischer erschienen. Gewicht in Gramm: 1000

1st edition. Very good in worn jacket. Some discolouration to spine cloth, gilt on spine fading. Square and tight binding. Jacket price clipped, small chips/worn edges, bigger chips to front top of jacket and top of spine. Book comes protected in mylar jacket cover.

Bright, unclipped dust jacket with small chips to spine ends, closed tear at front flap fold and crease to front flap in mylar cover. Tight binding, solid gray boards with sharp corners, red stripe and bright gilt lettering to front board and to spine strip, clean, unmarked pages.

Scarce first US edition of Werfel's work of H.G. Wellsian science fiction updated by "Einstein and Catholicism" (Kahn) - in the rare dust jacket. Werfel's narrator first dies, then makes haste to California-Lemuria some hundred thousand years later. Inventive and unpredictable, concerned with time and timelessness, etiquette and mysticism, astral flight and angelology, committee meetings of talking dogs and the mass exodus of domestic cats from the hearths of humanity to somewhere out of the world. Werfel's ambitious and lengthy last work, it was written in German during his last years in California, then first published (posthumously) in Sweden as STERN DER UNGEBORENEN in 1946. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original grey-blue cloth stamped in red and gilt. Red topstain. In original unclipped ($3.00) blue printed dust jacket designed by Robert Hallock. 645, [1] pages. Previous owner's name in pen to front free endpaper. Minor bumping to boards, very faint spotting to top edge of text block. Some chipping to jacket edges with additional closed tears to spine ends, small tape repair to jacket verso. Very good plus in good plus jacket.

Star of the Unborn by Franz Werfel (First Edition) Rare A firm copy with minor stains to text block. Minor wear to corners. Internally clean. Original dust jacket. Minor rubbing to covers. Minor bumping to edges. Not price clipped. First published by the Viking Press in February 1946, stated. First hardcover edition. Bleiler II listed title. Grey cloth, blocked in red, lettered gilt. Blue dust jacket.The Author's last book and the one he considered his best.