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Author: Wilde,
Oscar, 1854-1900.
Title: Dorian
Grays Bildnis / Oscar Wilde ; Deutsch von Felix Paul Greve. --
Edition: Neue, billige, Ausgabe. --
Published: Minden, [Germany] : J.C.C. Bruns' Verlag, [ca. 1908, c1903].
Description: 367 p. ; 19 cm.
Note: Translation of Oscar Wilde's only novel The picture of Dorian Gray,
orig. publ. serially in 1890 in "Lippincott's monthly magazine".
This is a later, ca. 1908 printing of the 2nd ed. of Greve's German text
("13. bis 15. Tausend"). --
The orig. 1902/3 ed. had the title: Das
Bildnis Dorian Grays -- it is relatively rare, whereas Dorian
Grays Bildnis appears in many printings until well into the 1920s. A recent
antiquarians' site search listed 14 of the latter, & only one of the former.
Local Note:
Spine title: Dorian Gray. --
Opposite tp: long list of Greve's
works (4, excluding his two novels Fanny Essler and Maurermeister Ihles
Haus,
1905 & 1906/7 respectively)
and translations:
5 by Oscar Wilde,
3 by Meredith;
6 by Wells ;
4 by Flaubert,
and
2 by Gide. --
Most of these were published by Bruns who proudly specifies his
Ducal Court connections on the cover: "Herzogl. Sachs. und Furstl. Schaumburg-Lippische
Hof-Verlagsbuchhandlung." --
Last
p.: "Oscar Wilde-Literatur," a list of 7 titles published by Bruns. 4 of these
were transl. by Greve, 2 by Carl Hagemann, 1 by Freiherr von Teschenberg.
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