Between1926 and 1927, ten thousand Trade edition copies of Masereel’s wordless novel, Die Sonne, were printed.
Wolff Trade editions

- the book is pretty much the same size as the Wolff 1920 limited editions
- 15.5 x 12 cm (6 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches)
- Images in the Trade edition are the same size as the 1920 Wolff edition printed from the blocks eg frontis is 11.4 x 8.9 cm
- Printed by the Bibliographic Institute
- printed in Leipzig
- Cover design by Emil Preetorius
- Printed in Germany
- Copyright 1926 by Kurt Wolff Verlag A.-G., Munich
- 1926 and 1927 both came with a dust jacket
- Introduction by Carl Georg Heise
1926 Die Sonne Trade edition
5000 copies printed


Printed in 1926 by the Bibliographical
Institute in Leipzig / Cover design by Emil
Preetorius / Printed in Germany / Copyright 1926
by Kurt Wolff Verlag A.-G., Munich
1927 Die Sonne Trade edition
A further 5000 copies were printed

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Printed in 1927 by the Bibliographical
Institute in Leipzig / Cover design by Emil
Preetorius / Printed in Germany / Copyright 1926
by Kurt Wolff Verlag A.-G., Munich

Die Sonne Trade edition
sells for 2.50M; Half-leather for 25M
