Author: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.

Title: Die menschliche Komödie, Erster Band : Das Haus zur Ballspielenden Katze. Die verlassene Frau. Gobseck. Die Frau von dreissig Jahren. Der Ehevertrag / Honore de Balzac ; [mit Einleitung von H. V. Hofmannsthal, dem Essay "Balzac" von W. Weigand, & "Balzac's Vorrede" übertragen von Felix Paul Greve]. --

Edition: Deutsche Ausgabe in zehn Bänden. --

Published: Leipzig : Insel-Verlag, 1923[-1925].

Description: 10 v. [v.1, 800 p.] : ill. ; 19 cm.--

Note: "Dunndruckausgabe" of the 1908-1911 German Balzac ed. in 16 v., in different content arrangement. --

Bound in orig. green linen, with "HdeB" gold monogram letters on cover. --
Ornate spine with a black title label reading "Honoré / de Balzac / * / Die / menschliche / Komödie" at the top, and the vol. designation "1" in a black, gold-fringed circle near the bottom. --
Title & series title opposite title-page in green, in "Fraktur" type, as is the entire text [unlike the 1908 ed., which used a much clearer type-set, perhaps designed, as were the title, initials, and covers, by the famous British Arts & Craftsman Eric Gill, 1882-1940]. --
Contents:
Bd. 1. Frontispiece: "Auduste Rodin's Balzac / nach einer Photographie von E. Druet". --
Einleitung / von Hugo von Hofmannsthal / Geschrieben 1909 [p.7-23]. --
Balzac: ein Essay / von Wilhelm Weigand [p.27-218]. --
Balzacs Vorrede zur Menschlichen Komödie / [übertragen von Felix Paul Greve, p.221-237; half-title page, p.[219] ; Balzac's Preface concludes thus on p.237: "Paris, Juli 1942."]. --
Das Haus zur 'Ballspielenden Katze' / [tr., J. Schlaf, p.241-310]. --
Die verlassene Frau / [tr., R. Schickele, p.313-360]. --
Gobseck / [tr., J. Schlaf, p.363-432]. --
Die Frau von dreissig Jahren / [tr., Hedwig Lachmann, p.435-644. --
Der Ehevertrag / [tr., Gisela Etzel, p.647-801]. --
Inhalt des ersten Bandes [p.[803]: each title of the 6 Balzac texts listed here is followed by "übertragen von..." with the Übersetzer's name, and the page number of the corresponding half-title. None of the half-title pages preceding the actual texts mention the names the translators. --

Local Note: RBR has Bd.1, [Bd.3], & Bd. 8 of this edition in various "Auflagen" & bindings. --

Includes translation of Balzac's introduction to La Comédie Humaine by Felix Paul Greve. -- Acquired for the FPG (Greve/Grove) & FrL Collections from List & Francke, Bodensee, July 1995.

Other Author(s): Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948.