Marvin Carlson
Goethe and the Weimar Theatre.
Cornell University Press, 1978. Author-signed first edition. 0801411181 328 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in green cloth, with gilt-lettered brown spine label. Book is like new. Author's signature appears on front flyleaf. Dust jacket displays shelfwear, with rubbing visible at edges. Jacket is in mylar cover.
"This book tells the story of the most important theatre in Germany -- perhaps in all of Europe -- at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It focuses upon Goethe's contributions to the Weimar theatre as director, actor, and designer from 1775, the year of his arrival, to his death in 1832."