Translated German Sutton Eric (13 results)

Condition: New. SB. 2 vols. 263pp + map & 407 pp + map. 2004 N&MP reprint of 1929 edition. B&WPublished Price £28 Max Hoffmann was Chief of Staff to Von Prittwitz, the aristocratic General charged with defending Germanyâs East Prussian heartland at the outbreak of the Great War. Prittwitz was as inept as his name suggests, and when the Russians steamrollered west far faster than the Germans had expected, he panicked and sought permission to retreat behind the River Vistula. But Hoffman kept his head and conceived a bold scheme to attack and annihilate the Russian advance. This was the operational plan that was already being put into effect when the dynamic duo of Hindenburg and Ludendorff arrived in the east to take over from the disgraced Prittwitz in late August 1914.The result was the total triumph of Tannenberg, soon followed by the twin victory at the Masurian Lakes. Hindenburg and Ludendorff got the credit for Tannenberg rather than its real author, the brilliant Hoffmann, who continued to be a tower of strength on the Eastern front, being part of the German delegation which negotiated the harsh Treaty of Brest-LItoskv which eliminated Russia from the war early in 1918. These two volumes of memoirs comprise (Vol 1) Hoffmannâs War Diaries and (Vol II) his reflections which are summed up in his title âThe War of Lost Opportunitiesâ. Hoffmannn believed that the Great War could have been won by Germany in the east in 1914-15, and that Falkenhayn made a major mistake by concentrating on the west. Hoffmannâs frank and rather salty comments on Falkenhayn and his other brother officers - including Ludendorff of whom he was a criticial admirer - are valuable and revealing, coming as they do from one of the brightest minds among Germanyâs supreme commanders. Warning against the Bolsheviks, Hoffmann lived after the war in Berlin and Bavaria, where he died at Berchtesgaden in 1927.

Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDMinor chipping to head of spine. Spine letters dark.

First edition hard back publisher's original yellow cloth covers, black stamping to spine and upper panel. 8vo 7½" x 5ĵ" 524 pp. Spine tanned, sporadic marks to edges of upper panel, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. GERMANY [Language, History].

Hard back binding in publisher's original yellow cloth covers, brown lettering to the spine and the upper panel. 8vo. 7½'' x 5ĵ''. Contains 524 printed pages of text. Pencil name to the front free end paper, no foxing. Very Good condition book, in Good condition dust wrapper with inner front flap missing, small tears and rubs to the edges. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. GERMANY [Language, History].

Hardcover without Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First English Edition. A very good copy, without dust jacket. The cloth is quite soiled, with heavy dampstaining, the contents are fine, with a former-owner name in ink on the front free endpaper.The first novel in Zweig's famous anti-war trilogy, followed by "The Case of Sergeant Grischa" and "The Crowning of a King". Original German title: "Erziehung vor Verdun. Roman" (1935).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. First Edition Stated. Tightly bound full cloth hardcover with a small ink mark to the front endpaper, else a clean and unmarked interior. The original publisher's price of $2.75 remains intact on the dust jacket flap, and the jacket presents well under fresh archival mylar despite chipping along the upper edge, rubbing to the folds, and some spotting to the verso. NOT ex-lib. A clean, solid first edition in jacket of this war era essay collection from the Nobel Prize winner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Toothill (Dustwrapper illustration) (illustrator). First UK Edition. A later printing of the first UK edition, published in February 1938. The book was something of a bestseller, being published by Putnam in the UK in March 1933, and then reprinted four times in the same year, with a second edition following in May 1934, with two more reprints in 1935, and then this printing in February 1938. Translated from the German by Eric Sutton. ***Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with black titles to the spine. The cloth is nice and clean and unmarked. Edges of boards and top and tail of spine slightly creased. Lower corners also slightly creased. The colour of the cloth has faded slightly around the spine, and the dustwrapper design has left an interesting impression of two shadow figures on the spine (due to exposure to sunlight). No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Spine tight without any fraying or tears. Internally also very good. There is some internal foxing to the paper, which affects the page block edges, and the first and last few pages. With a contemporary gift inscription to the front free endpaper 'From: Gordon & Hilda, Xmas 1941'. No creases or tears. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which is beautifully preserved and intact. The extremities of the dustwrapper are slightly rubbed and creased. The spine of the dustwrapper is slightly browned. No tears. The original owner (or those who gave the book as a gift) has carefully excised the printed price from the front flap, leaving a small cut-out square. No chips or tears. ***190mm x 135mm. 441 pages. ***'"Little Man What Now" is the book that earned Hans Fallada his international reputation. The little man, John Pinneberg, and his wife, Bunny, two simple souls, struggle bravely in a world of diminishing returns and increasing unemployment. They manage to maintain their high spirits in anxiety and adversity. We love them and their baby, their extravagances and economies. They speak for their generation.' ***'It is vital, charming, humorous, pathetic. And it succeeds in making the reader feel how universal it is.' Gerald Gould, in the Observer. ***'I prophesy that it will be enormously successful. Written out of the conviction that there is a good life to be lived.' J. B. Priestley (Quote and review quotes taken from the inside front flap of the dustwrapper) ***Hans Fallada was one of the best-known German writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1893 in Greifswald, north-east Germany, as Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, he took his pen-name from a Brothers Grimm fairytale. His most famous works include the novels "Little Man, What Now?" and "The Drinker". Fallada died in 1947 in Berlin.' (Wiki) ***A pre-war reprinting of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper, in nice, bright condition. UK published editions of Fallada's pre-war books are seldom found in their original dustwrappers now. A scarce item. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

First British edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with gilt titles to the spine and upper board, without the scarce dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with bumping and rubbing to the extremities, the cloth marked and toned to the spine. The contents, with a previous owner's signature to the half title, a small bookseller's ticket to the rear pastedown are a little spotted throughout and darkened to the closed text block edge. The story of a Greek peasant who embraces the machine age but becomes disillusioned with technical progress and its use for war. (Bleiler; Locke: A Spectrum of Fantasy). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Vol. in -8 (17 x 24 cm.), legatura editoriale tutta tela nera con stemma rosso sul piatto e titoli in oro al dorso, pp. 383, (1). In buone condizioni. ---.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American Edition. A very good copy, in dust jacket.First novel in Zweig's war trilogy; followed by "The Case of Sergeant Grischa" and "The Crowning of a King". Original German title: "Erziehung vor Verdun. Roman" (1935).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First English Edition. Volume two only. Previous owner's name on front free end paper. Some foxing to page edges and prelims but binding tight and contents clean. C00002365.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. First Edition. [nice solid copy, light soiling to bottom edge, internally clean; jacket is edgeworn, small piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front panel, faint dampstain near top of front panel, nearly split along rear foldover, still quite attractive]. Futurist fantasy in which a young Greek war refugee, introduced to the wonders of modern machinery, works his way up from garage mechanic to member of an airline crew. This gets him mixed up with a mysterious American arms merchant, and he eventually finds himself a stowaway on a gigantic Russian airship (the "Zodiak") operated by the Militant Anti-God League, which (of course!) takes its marching, er, flying orders straight from Moscow, and whose mission, he discovers, is to blanket the world with Communist propaganda leaflets and thereby lay the groundwork for a World Revolution. The book appears to be chock-full of mystical symbolism and stuff (check the signs of the Zodiac on the jacket spine), and in its closing pages the author quotes that well-known mystic Henry Ford: "Shall we not some day reach a point where the machine is becomes all powerful and the man of no consequence?" Shall we not, indeed?

Hardcover. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 8in. ix. 585pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page: 'For W. Bryher, with my best wishes and thanks, Heinrich Mann. Nice, Sept. 1937.' An association copy, the inscription is to Annie Winifred Ellerman, the poet, novelist, and editor, who used the pen name Winnifred Bryher. She and Mann frequently corresponded during his time in Nice, which was the first of his many sanctuaries from the Nazi regime in the years to come, being one of the earliest to intimate Germany's future. In their letters several years prior to the publication of 'Young Henry of Navarre' they discuss the special importance of English publishers translating the work of modern German authors with strong anti-Nazi sentiment. Mann calls these publications a 'practical help.' [Friedman, S. (2002). 'Analyzing Freud: Letters of H.D., Bryher, and Their Circle,' p. 73, 90, 330, 250] Signed books by Mann are scarce generally, but especially so in English translation. VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows shelf rubbing along the edges and corners, boards with a hint of toning, a small section ever so lightly discolored at the foot of the spine, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and completely unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. The dust jacket shows some light bouts of scuffing and several very small shallow chips from the edges, spine somewhat tanned, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.