Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first paperback edition, early printing of The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. First Edition described, 1962 Grove Press. Second Printing 1964 stated with 63-17001 LOC number on copyright page and a $1.75 cover price.
The exterior of the paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the previous owner’s crossed out name on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership inside. The inside rear cover and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned, making it an excellent addition to any collection. Appears unread.
The setting: a madhouse. The principal characters: three male patients, all nuclear physicists. One, Herbert George Bentler, believes he is Newton; a second, Ernst Ernesti, thinks he is Einstein. Both are fairly recent arrivals at the asylum. The third, Johann Wilhelm Mobius, who has visions in which King Solomon appears to him, has been there for fifteen years. In charge: the efficient, aristocratic, hunchbacked woman-psychiatrist, Fraulein Dr. Mathilde von Zahud. To this, add the Aristotelian unities of place, time and action (“The action takes place among madmen and therefore requires a classical framework,” the author notes), and one has the basic ingredients of one of Swiss dramatist Friedrich Durrenmatt’s most ambitious plays.
Thin Paperback volume with one play ships promptly in a manila envelope with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
