"As new except for sticker shadow inside front cover. Grey cloth with gilt lettering. 19 short stories by Hesse who ""confessed that it had been his overriding ambition, while he was a child, to become a magician…though by magic he now meant the transformation of reality, the creation of a wholly new reality, in his writing..."" 213 pages, 8.75x5.75"" (22.2x14.6cm)."