Wozzeck.
Leipzig: Im Insel-verlag [Boeschel & Trepte], 1920.
Price: $250.00
About the item
Number 455 of 520 copies of this the first separate edition of this tragedy. 1 vols. 8vo. Original half- parchment salmon boards with title printed on upper cover and spine. Some fading and scuffing of boards, discoloration of endpapers, else quite clean.
Item #18445
It was from this work that the Austrian composer Alban Berg composed his very successful opera “Wozzeck” (1925). These fragments were first published posthumously in 1850 as “Wozzeck”.