Demian

The German first (S. Fischer, 1919, as by 'Emil Sinclair') is the true first. First edition in English, and first American, is the N. H. Priday translation, Boni & Liveright, New York, 1923 — described as the second Hesse novel to appear in English — in publisher's cloth with a geometric black-and-red pattern repeated on the dust jacket; it was reissued by Henry Holt in 1948. Both the 1919 German first and the 1923 Boni & Liveright are collected.