This Modern Library book, #177.1 in the series, Faust by Goethe, and was translated by Bayard Taylor. From the front flap of a jacketed edition: “Readers, critics and commentators have found Faust inexhaustible in its new and illuminating riches. For a century and a quarter it has held its place among the world's treasures. The variety and beauty of its plan and the depth of its implications give it the immortality for which its central character bargained with his soul. Faust remains the personification of humanity, tempted and tormented, groping toward the light. Of the fifty translations of the masterpiece, Bayard Taylor's, in the original metres, most completely retains Goethe's intention and spirit.” 258 pgs. Plus a lists of regular.

The used book has a Toledano 5 cover and D or Kent endpapers. The copyright page is dated is 1930.

The cover is clean, the dark top stain is smooth, the corners are bumped, and the spine is faded but the the gilt is bright. See photos.

As I draft on eBay there are two jacketless copies coded as firsts for $30.00 and $35.00 (search: "Modern Library" "Faust" "Goethe" "First"). On ABE, there are two jacketless copies offered for $50.00 and $66.00 and the two jacketed 1sts for $225.00 and $775.00.

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