ZWEIG, Arnold. Education Before Verdun. Trans. from the German by Eric Sutton. New York: The Viking Press. 1936. 8vo. First American edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board, in the pleasing dust jacket designed by Paul Wenck. A near fine example, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and bright throughout. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50 net), gently nicked at the corners, tips and some edges, a few small closed tears and light rubbing, but a presentable example overall.
The third volume in Zweig’s celebrated six-volume Great War cycle entitled ‘The Great War of the White Men’, though each can be read standalone. It took just a few months of frontline action for Zweig to convert from a staunch Prussian patriot to an international pacifist, such was the brutality and inhumanity of the Battle of Verdun, the longest battle of the Great War in which German and French soldiers endured ten hellish months, the battle which introduced flamethrowers to close quarter combat, and whose impact to the grounds it happened on will see de-miners rooting up shells for centuries to come. Paul Wenck designed the dust jackets for various volumes in the cycle, but George Salter also produced a jacket which the publisher used; no priority established.
ZWEIG, Arnold. Education Before Verdun. Trans. from the German by Eric Sutton. New York: The Viking Press. 1936. 8vo. First American edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board, in the pleasing dust jacket designed by Paul Wenck. A near fine example, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and bright throughout. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50 net), gently nicked at the corners, tips and some edges, a few small closed tears and light rubbing, but a presentable example overall.
The third volume in Zweig’s celebrated six-volume Great War cycle entitled ‘The Great War of the White Men’, though each can be read standalone. It took just a few months of frontline action for Zweig to convert from a staunch Prussian patriot to an international pacifist, such was the brutality and inhumanity of the Battle of Verdun, the longest battle of the Great War in which German and French soldiers endured ten hellish months, the battle which introduced flamethrowers to close quarter combat, and whose impact to the grounds it happened on will see de-miners rooting up shells for centuries to come. Paul Wenck designed the dust jackets for various volumes in the cycle, but George Salter also produced a jacket which the publisher used; no priority established.
