Arnold Zweig, Education Before Verdun 1st/1st US 1936
"Education Before Verdun", by Arnold Zweig, translated from the German by Eric Sutton, published by Viking Press, New York, 1936, First American Edition, First Printing. 1936 is imprinted on the bottom of the title page; "Published March 1936" without any following printings listed on the copyright page.
"Education Before Verdun" is a novel about German "grunts" in the Great War. The story juxtaposes soldiers' private battles against the backdrop of wartime bloodshed and terror. This book is also about the essential randomness and bizarrely coincidental nature of the war that gave us the Dada and Surrealist movements.
US: Priority (c.2-4 days) --------- $8.50
Canada: Priority (c.2-6 weeks) --- $27.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) ---- $37.50
Condition Report: Hard boards, publisher’s black cloth gold stamped spine and front board; 5.3/4" x 8.1/2"; endpapers are maps [“EX-“ is written at the top corner of the front endpaper; name and "June 1936" is pen-written on the back of the front endpaper; 447 pages + one page author’s Afterword dated Spring 1935; very good condition.
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"Education Before Verdun", by Arnold Zweig, translated from the German by Eric Sutton, published by Viking Press, New York, 1936, First American Edition, First Printing. 1936 is imprinted on the bottom of the title page; "Published March 1936" without any following printings listed on the copyright page.
"Education Before Verdun" is a novel about German "grunts" in the Great War. The story juxtaposes soldiers' private battles against the backdrop of wartime bloodshed and terror. This book is also about the essential randomness and bizarrely coincidental nature of the war that gave us the Dada and Surrealist movements.
US: Priority (c.2-4 days) --------- $8.50
Canada: Priority (c.2-6 weeks) --- $27.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) ---- $37.50
Condition Report: Hard boards, publisher’s black cloth gold stamped spine and front board; 5.3/4" x 8.1/2"; endpapers are maps [“EX-“ is written at the top corner of the front endpaper; name and "June 1936" is pen-written on the back of the front endpaper; 447 pages + one page author’s Afterword dated Spring 1935; very good condition.
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