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Kayser, Rudolf. Dichterköpfe, Wien: Phaidon-Verlag, 1930. Copyright 1930 by Phaidon-Verlag, Dr. Horowitz, Wien. Druck der Buch-und Kunstdruckerei, Albert Ketterl, Wien XVIII, Leitermayergasse 35-37. Für Albert Einstein. German text. First edition/erste ausgabe. 23cm, [203 pages, ii] One leaf of publisher S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin advertisements for Stendhal, Stefan Zweig, Alfred Kerr, Thomas Mann. Ownership signature on inside front cover dated 1938, inscribed and signed by Rudolf Kayser on the half-title in German and English. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. Wear at the head and foot of the spine, otherwise a good bright copy printed on good paper. Rudolf Kayser (1889 – 1964) was a German literary critic and editor for S. Fischer in Berlin. These essays range in topicality from Baruch de Spinoza, to Hölderlin, Schlegel, Stendhal, Nietzche, Rilke, Thomas Mann, Vom Jungen Deutschland and the Deutsche Situationen 1930.