London, Hutchinson, [c.1933].

'7th thousand'. 8vo. Original red cloth.

Brooks founded the Manchester Press Agency at twenty, was a major figure at the BBC, and moved in circles ranging from literary to political to financial; when he died in 1959, T.S. Eliot was among those who spoke at his memorial. Mad-Doctor Merciful, first published by Hutchinson in 1932, is his acknowledged masterpiece of supernatural fiction. The plot involves a lawyer named Godfrey Leybourne, whose old girlfriend married another man and had a child; the woman was killed by cannibals while travelling, and her daughter, who witnessed the murder, went mad... It was reprinted by Ramble House in 2014 with an introduction by the late John Pelan, who described it as the author's "masterpiece of shockers"

London, B.T. Batsford, [1934].

First edition. 8vo. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards.

An attractive edition of this work by a pioneer of linocut technique in printmaking.

Poems... Foreword by Nadine Gordimer
Johannesburg, Renoster Books, 1971.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.

A notable work in the history of the anti-apartheid movement, produced at a time when most authors associated with the movement were banned or exiled. Mtshali, who at the time worked as a messenger in Johannesburg, has since been credited with spawning the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. Jensma was a significant and troubled South African artist and poet whose own work is now keenly collected.

London, Dent, 1931.

First edition, second impression. 8vo. Original decorative cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4/6.

A perceptive travel and social commentary on 1920s Germany by the novelist, playwright, feminist, and suffragette Cicely Hamilton. Surveying political, cultural and social life across the fragmented postwar states, Hamilton records both the optimism of the Weimar years and the tensions that would culminate in Nazism. First issued in 1931, this later, cheaper edition (likely late 1933) incorporates a newly added chapter, "Postscript: The New Order," addressing the Nazi regime - an unusually early and appended account of Hitler's Germany within an existing work.Illustrated with additional photographs, including images of Hitler at the Nuremberg Rally and of young Nazis, the volume also reflects Hamilton's feminist concerns. In discussing Nazi pronatalism and racial policy, she wryly questions how Germany would feed its projected population increase, only to be told, ominously, that all would be well "when we have colonies."

Brussels, Editions Est-Ouest, 1945.

First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.

Scarce; OCLC locates only 5 copies in the US (USHMM, JHU, Hoover, LOC Harvard). One of the earliest substantial eyewitness accounts of Dachau, published only months after its liberation by American forces in April 1945. Arthur Haulot, a Belgian journalist and resistance member, was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and deported first to Mauthausen and then to Dachau. There he served as a nurse and helped found the International Prisoners' Committee. After liberation he remained in the camp to assist with its administration before returning to Brussels in June 1945. Haulot later travelled in Germany as a witness at the Dachau trials and wrote extensively on the atrocities of the Nazi regime and its assault on fundamental freedoms.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1929.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original purple cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.

Müller-Freienfels was a prominent social critic and philosopher whose work combined philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, emphasising the role of unconscious and symbolic forces in shaping culture. His ideas on the "collective soul" and national psychology resonated with the intellectual climate of 1930s Germany and, while his precise influence on official Nazi doctrine is difficult to measure, his thought aligned in part with contemporary nationalist currents. He joined the Nazi Party in 1933, later distanced himself, and by 1942 was declared "inactive" and placed on the Index of prohibited authors.His legacy became the subject of post-war controversy. In 1948, following the publication of his letter in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Dr Alfred Einstein publicly accused him of having been a "leading Nazi aesthetician," prompting a sharp exchange that illustrates the fraught reassessment of German intellectuals after 1945.

The Story of Franz Biberkopf
New York, The Viking Press, 1931.

First US edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Original light grey cloth blocked in red & black. Dust-jackets. Lacking original slip-case.

Translated by Eugene Jolas. First published in Germany in 1929, this landmark Weimar novel follows Franz Biberkopf, an ex-convict determined to go straight after his release from Tegel Prison, only to be drawn back into Berlin's criminal underworld amid economic hardship and mounting political extremism. Döblin's innovative, collage-like style weaves street slang, headlines, and interior monologue into a vivid portrait of the city. This is the first English translation, by Eugene Jolas, co-founder of the avant-garde journal transition—an important but often criticised version, noted for its difficulty in fully conveying the novel's linguistic energy and dense vernacular.

London, Heinemann, 1929.

New impression. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in red. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.

A mystical supernatural novel of reincarnation: the village eccentric and egomaniac Peregrine Sark brings back a terracotta figure of the goddess Cybele to his English country house and becomes dangerously absorbed in worshipping the deity. Attractive jacket artwork by commercial and graphic artist Keely.

From the papers and diaries of Chief Gouvernante Baroness D'Alteville
London, Cassell, 1916.

First edition, Canadian Export issue. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 50 cents.

Published during the First World War, this sensational work claims to reveal the private life of Bertha Krupp, heiress to Germany's vast armaments empire, through the supposed diaries of her governess, Baroness d'Alteville. Casting Krupp as an agent of the Kaiser in a campaign against Britain, the book presents itself as exposé but is in fact a transparent work of wartime fiction. Contemporary reviewers dismissed it as a dubious "shocker," filled with implausible private conversations and speculative "information" that strained credulity.

A Drama of Divided Germany
London, Macmillan, 1932.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, clipped to front inside flap but with stamped price $2.00 present, possibly for export.

A political novel set amid the turmoil of late Weimar Germany, portraying a society destabilised by economic collapse, ideological extremism, and the erosion of democratic institutions. Its protagonist, a schoolteacher who persuades himself he can remain apolitical, is drawn into a world squeezed between "Hitlerites, Agrarians, and Communists." Written from a broadly left-democratic perspective, the novel captures the febrile atmosphere of the early 1930s; the original German edition appeared in 1932.The author Frank, an Austrian-born writer, journalist, and screenwriter would later be associated with films produced during the Nazi period, including Reitet für Deutschland, a commercially successful work endorsed by the regime and subsequently banned by the Allies in 1945.

His State and His Mind
London, Putnam, 1937.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.

Written under the pseudonym E.B. Ashton, Ernst Basch offers a mid-1930s analysis of fascist theory and practice, completed in autumn 1936. A German-born writer and translator (later resident in the United States), Basch was married to Austrian author Hertha Pauli and translated major works by Karl Jaspers, including The Future of Germany. Though not incorporating the latest developments in Germany, Italy, and Spain, Basch notes that events there only confirm his conclusions. Featuring the fasces, the Roman emblem from which fascism takes its name, on its cover, the work is both a study of Fascism and a measured defence of democracy.

A novel
London, John Lehmann, 1947.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.

Translated from the German by Stuart Hood. A chilling, dreamlike allegory of a peaceful pastoral society corrupted by the sinister "Head Forester," a thinly veiled embodiment of Nazi power and nihilism. First published in Germany in 1939, the work astonishingly escaped an immediate ban, likely owing to Jünger's status as a war hero and the subtlety of its critique (though it faced censorship in 1942). Notable for its early and unsettling prefiguration of the death camps, the narrative depicts a "factory of death" where perfect order masks spiritual annihilation.