"Das große Wagnis", by Max Brod – First Edition Copy, with Many Handwritten Proofreading Notes by Brod / Two ...

"Das große Wagnis", by Max Brod – First Edition Copy, with Many Handwritten Proofreading Notes by Brod / Two Records – Musical Compositions by Brod
First edition of the novel Das große Wagnis by Max Brod – author's copy, with notes in his handwriting (before the printing of the second edition published in 1919) and two records with musical compositions by Brod (1953).
• Das große Wagnis [The Big Gamble], by Max Brod. [Leipzig and Vienna: Kurt Wolff, 1918]. German. First edition. Incomplete copy.
A copy owned by the author, Max Brod, who added to it dozens of handwritten proofreading notes, corrections and additions, towards the printing of the second edition. The notes and corrections were written in part on the book's pages and in part on separate leaves. On the front cover, a list of pages with Brod's corrections, hand-signed by Brod.
The book is placed in a card cover, with a mailing label of the Kurt Wolff publishing house in Leipzig (stating the addressee's name, Max Brod, and his address in Prague), and a label reading "corrections, The Big Gamble, for the new edition, published by Kurt Wolff" (German).
Incomplete copy. 33-329, [1] pp. (missing title page and first 32 pages). 19.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Detached leaves and gatherings. Stains and small tears. Front and back cover detached from one another and from the body of the book; torn spine.
Enclosed with the book are several galley proofs printed towards the publishing of the second edition (1919) – leaves and unopened sheets, some of them with the stamp of the E. Haberland Printing house in Leipzig, with several handwritten notes and corrections.
pp. 13-29, 42-96, 183, 316-337, [1]. 19.5 cm. Creases and small tears to margins.
The novel Das große Wagnis, written by Brod after World War I, describes the establishment of the underground city "Liberia", ruled by the dictator Dr. Askonas.
• Two records of the W.H. Von Der Mühll Zürich company – musical compositions by Max Brod (two texts after Kafka – Tod and Paradies and poems by Goethe). Zürich, October 1953.