Brinton Crane Preface (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Printed in the U.S.A. Date on the title page. First Printing. Frontispiece, Editor's Preface, Author's Preface, List of 6 Illustrations, Introduction, Footnotes, Bibliography, Index; xvii, 266 pages. The original terra-cotta-colored cloth is excellent---corners are square and printed label on the spine about perfect. Top edge colored to match the cloth; others uncut (untrimmed). A lovely copy with quality, creamy-bright pages. There is a tiny seller's label at the front and a stamp: 'Thought / Fordham University.' The interior is completely clean. [Please see my 7 images of the actual book.] The book gives fascinating insight into current thinking, years before World War II ended. From the Preface (and page 231): "Begun before Munich, finished after the defeat of France, [this study] must bear some marks of contemporary events. There is something very unpleasant about the Nazis. . . . Abusive epithets like 'barbarous,' 'uncivilized,' 'insane,' 'arrogant,' 'brutal,' all carry many of the right overtones. . . . Yet the nearest I can come is the metaphor with which I close Chapter VIII: [T]he emotional tone of Nietzsche's life and writings, as distinguished from his ideas, is much like what we hear of the emotional tone of inner Nazi circles. The unrelieved tension, the feverish aspiration, the driving madness, the great noise Nietzsche made for himself, the Nazi elite is making for an uncomfortably large part of the world. But these are vague, grand terms. The situation can be described much more simply. Nietzsche, like the Nazi leaders, was never really house-broken." As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Harbinger Bks Ed 1962. 396 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Moderate foxing on page edges.

Paperback. Condition: As New.