Glaeser (Ernst) The Last Civilian
£125
London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1936.
First UK edition, second printing. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, price redacted on inside front flap.
The author’s most famous novel outside Germany, in which he describes Nazism as an epidemic and Hitler as a hysteric. However, despite Glaeser’s works being put on the Nazi’s hate-list for burning, the author returned to Germany from Switzerland in 1939, branding other émigré writers as traitors, and swearing an oath of allegiance to the Reich.
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Some loss to white lettering on spine; jacket with light circular label mark to spine, some loss to corners and spine ends, light rubbing to extremities.
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