Gustav Meyrink, Ernst Klein, trans.

Valborgsmässa

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1919. Publisher’s plain wrappers lettered in red and black, fore-edge uncut. 243 pp. 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 in. Text in Swedish. Fair; toned, wrapper separating. Item #7532

Presumably the first translation of Gustav Meyrink’s Walpurgisnacht into Swedish. Set in
Prague, Meyrink’s phantasmagorical novel narrates the story of a Czech revolution storming a castle above the Moldau, containing the German aristocracy. Quite rare; OCLC traces only 2 copies.

Price: $100.00