Over 60,000 Trade editions of Frans Masereels’ wordless novel, Geschichte Ohne Worte, have been printed including an edition in Chinese.
If you have better images of any of these later books please send them and I will give you a photo credit. wn@wordlessnovels.com
1927 Geschichte Ohne Worte – Wolff Trade
- Kurt Wolff, Munich.
- 1927
- 15 x 11.5 cm
- 20 + (126) pp. 60 reproduced
- original format
- Preface by Max Brod
- edition: 1 to 5 thousand.
- Then taken over by the Transmare Verlag, Berlin.
1933 Geschichte Ohne Worte – Insel Verlag
NOTE: the number 433 on the front label. Since all copies by this publisher have “433” one can assume it is publication #433 for this publisher/printer.
Also NOTE: there are various patterns used on the cover by this publisher – presumably relating to later editions. If anyone has information as to what, if anything, this denotes please advise. wn@wordlessnovels.com
- publisher: Insel Verlag, Leipzig.
- 1933.
- Dimensions: 18.5 x 12 cm,
- 69 + (3) pp. 60
- Afterword by Hermann Hesse.
- Coll. Insel. Bücherei, nº 433.
- 1 to 10 thousand.
- Imp. Spamer A.-G., Leipzig.
- The last plate which originally had the word ‘Fini’, a monogram, and the date ‘1919’ engraved was replaced by a similar plate (engraved by F.M. or drawn by him?) where the word ‘Ende’ replaced the word ‘Finished’ and the date 1920 was added to the date 1919. (Also applies to subsequent editions).
BUT look at the information below for 1952 which indicates 11 to 25 thousand.
Can someone clarify.
Later publishings – Geschichte Ohne Worte
as per Avermate
8.1d Edit. pop., Insel-Verlag, Wiesbaden
1952. 11 to 25 thousand.
1954. 26 to 35 thousand.
Same characteristics as the previous one.
Imp. Ensslin-Druck, Reutlingen.
8.1e Edit. pop., Insel-Verlag, Leipzig.
April 1957: 36 to 45 thousand.
Oct. 1957: 46 to 55 thousand.
Same characteristics as the previous one.
Veb Offizin Andersen Nexö, Leipzig.
Chinese edition:
8.11 Edit. pop., Liang-Lio Publishing Company,
Shanghai. 1933.
15.5 x 11.5 cm. Coll. Novels in pictures, nº 4.
NOTE: the Chinese copies I have seen printed from this period all have significant toning/foxing issues.