Published in 1944 - a real window into history!
Conversation with Goethe - in German
minor shelf wear on cover
no turned corners
no torn or missing pages
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pages are gilded on top
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printed in Zurich, Switzerland
Walther Meier founded the Manesse Verlag in Zürich in 1944. Two years earlier, he had discussed the idea of a "world literary library" for classical literature, with the printing house Conzett & Huber. The name of the publishing house was based on the Codex Manesse. The first two works published by Manesse Verlag in 1944 were "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville translated by Fritz Güttinger and "Goethe im Gespräch" (Goethe in Conversation) by Eduard Korrodi.