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 moving dust jacket designed by George Salter. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, just a trifle bumped at corners and tips. The binding tight and square though front hinge slightly exposed, holding well. The contents fine without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50 net), chip to the spine head, smaller nicks and chips to corners and tips, gentle rubbing, but a smart 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. George Salter produced this design; Paul Wenck produced a jacket design, too, which was also used by the publishers. 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 moving dust jacket designed by George Salter. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, just a trifle bumped at corners and tips. The binding tight and square though front hinge slightly exposed, holding well. The contents fine without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50 net), chip to the spine head, smaller nicks and chips to corners and tips, gentle rubbing, but a smart 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. George Salter produced this design; Paul Wenck produced a jacket design, too, which was also used by the publishers. No priority established.
