Author: FEUCHTWANGER, LION
Title: Power (Jud Süß, in English Language) (First Modern Library Edition, ML #206. 1 in Spine #7)
Description: New York: The Modern Library, 1932. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1932 (confirmed by list of ML titles at rear of book). The first popular novel by Lion Feuchtwanger, "Jud Süß," rendered into the English language by Willa and Edwin Muir under the title of "Power." This is the story of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, meant to be a study of the ill effects of greed and ambition. The author was a Bavarian Jew who staunchly opposed the rising National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazis) in the 1920s and 30s. Volume wrapped in jacket with striking woodcut image of bound man being taken to a gallows. --- In Toledano spine 7 / blue balloon cloth / limp boards / gilt cover torchbearer / gilt spine titling with inter-connected "ML" device / blue topstain / orange Kent endpapers / jacket style d, verso lists titles in ML catalog, but no total number. ML #206.1. --- With blacked-out prior owner's name to ffep, reading creases to spine, sunning to spine ends, pencilings to rear endpaper and general age-toning to leaves, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Brittle dust jacket with original $.95 flap price, chips to extremities (large at spine ends) and with toning, but remaining mostly intact and in removable mylar protector.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; (6), 531, (6, ads) pages. Good+ in Fair dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Title: Power (Jud Süß, in English Language) (First Modern Library Edition, ML #206. 1 in Spine #7)
Description: New York: The Modern Library, 1932. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1932 (confirmed by list of ML titles at rear of book). The first popular novel by Lion Feuchtwanger, "Jud Süß," rendered into the English language by Willa and Edwin Muir under the title of "Power." This is the story of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, meant to be a study of the ill effects of greed and ambition. The author was a Bavarian Jew who staunchly opposed the rising National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazis) in the 1920s and 30s. Volume wrapped in jacket with striking woodcut image of bound man being taken to a gallows. --- In Toledano spine 7 / blue balloon cloth / limp boards / gilt cover torchbearer / gilt spine titling with inter-connected "ML" device / blue topstain / orange Kent endpapers / jacket style d, verso lists titles in ML catalog, but no total number. ML #206.1. --- With blacked-out prior owner's name to ffep, reading creases to spine, sunning to spine ends, pencilings to rear endpaper and general age-toning to leaves, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Brittle dust jacket with original $.95 flap price, chips to extremities (large at spine ends) and with toning, but remaining mostly intact and in removable mylar protector.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; (6), 531, (6, ads) pages. Good+ in Fair dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Price: US$ 140.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 85620
- Book number: 85620