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First edition, first printing, with "Erste bis Sechste Auflage" on the copyright page. The novel's depiction of Buddhism and the struggle for enlightenment was particularly influential in the 1960s and 1970s, and served as the inspiration for Nick Drake's song "River Man". Octavo. Original orange boards, spine and front cover lettered in black. A few light marks and faint damp stains to covers, extremities lightly bumped and rubbed, slight cockling to outer leaves, contents fresh and clean. A very good copy in the fragile boards, often found broken, but here entirely sound. .

Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.