Published by Melville House, 2009
ISBN 10: 1933633654 ISBN 13: 9781933633657
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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Published by Marlboro Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 091039556X ISBN 13: 9780910395564
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.
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Published by Melville House UK, 2017
ISBN 10: 1911545027 ISBN 13: 9781911545026
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Elsevier, 1960. 2e druk. 185 pp., 1960
Seller: Antiquariaat Hortus Conclusus, Den Haag, Netherlands
Paperback. Omslag wat geschaafd, inhoud in goede staat. Please see description or ask for photos.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First paperback printing. Some chipping to spine; other minor creasing and wear; pages lightly toned. A solid very good copy.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Dell D162. Novel of a drunkard. Cover by William George. Very good+ condition. Small crease on lower right corner of front cover. Slight wear/discoloration along the spine-edge of the front cover.
Soft Cover. Condition: As New. 16mo, br. ed. 304pp.
Published by Uitgeverij Cossee, 2012
ISBN 10: 9059363582 ISBN 13: 9789059363588
Seller: Hamelyn, Madrid, Spain
Condition: Bueno. : De levensmiddelenhandelaar Erwin Sommer komt door een zakelijke tegen slag en drankgebruik in grote financiële problemen. Hij geeft zich over aan de alcohol en vervreemdt steeds meer van zijn vrouw Magda, voor wie hij zijn tegen spoed aanvankelijk verzwijgt.Wanneer Sommer een groot bedrag van zijn bankrekening opneemt uit angst dat zijn echtgenote die zal blokkeren, pikt zijn tijdelijke kamerverhuurder Polakowski daar een flink deel van in. Over de rest ontfermt Elinor zich, het barmeisje met wie Sommer een band van liefde en begrip meende op te bouwen.Bij een handgemeen met zijn echtgenote grijpt de beschonken Sommer haar bij de keel. Dit leidt tot een beschuldiging van poging tot doodslag, die tot zijn verbijstering door de politie serieus wordt genomen. Sommer komt in een nachtmerrie terecht. In plaats van de verwachte spoedige vrijlating uit de gevangenis wordt hij berecht, ontoerekeningsvatbaar verklaard en in een gesloten kliniek opgenomen. In nazi- Duitsland, leert hij, is een dergelijke maatregel zonder enig nader onderzoek mogelijk.Het verhaal over de neergang van de drinker is tragisch en tegelijkertijd vervuld van goede moed en vast vertrouwen dat alles zich ten goede zal keren. EAN: 9789059363588 Tipo: Libros Título: De Drinker: Roman Autor: Roolfs, Grose| Folkertsma, Anne| Fallada, Hans Editorial: Uitgeverij Cossee Idioma: NL, DE Páginas: 319.
Published by N.Y./New York.: Dell # 16, 1952, 1st Paperback Edition, First Printing, New York, 1943
First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description ). William George Cover Art (illustrator). First Edition. ----------( 1st Printing of the First Edition ) ---paperback, a solid Very Good+ example, faint spine crease/stress line, a wee bit of rubbing, a bit of age toning to paper, scarce, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 4.25w x 6.25h Inches. Not Signed.
Published by Putnam & Co., 1952
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Fair. 1952. First UK Edition. 282 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Translated by Charlotte and A. L. Lloyd. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Notable brown liquid stains of varying size to pages. Minor foxing and tanning to pages throughout. Some gutter cracking. Small tears (approx. 1cm) to some page edges. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine. Slight fraying to corners. Notable scuffing, staining and marking across the boards. Book has a forward lean and slightly bowed boards. Small splits (approx. 1cm) to spine ends. Gilt is dulled and worn.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Ed. First paperback ed. Very good condition, slight over all wear. Dell #D162. Book.
Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Translated by Charlotte and A.L.Lloyd; Der Drinker, was written in code in September 1944, while the author Fallada was in prison in Mecklenberg, on a charge of attempted murder. Later acquitted and released, he went to live in Berlin. His German publisher decoded the book and published tis imprint in German in 1951. It begins with " Of course I have not always been a drunkard."; Copyright 1952.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FALLADA, Hans. The Drinker. Trans. by Charlotte and A. L. Lloyd. London: Putnam. 1952. 8vo. First English language edition. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket designed by Klaus Meyer. An about very good copy, the cloth clean but the gilt dulled. Cloth extremities gently spotted and a trifle nibbled at, but the binding tight and square, with light marks to the textblock edges. The contents mostly fine but for some toning to the endpapers, and a couple of light handling marks. The dust jacket unclipped (12s 6d net) and complete, a little grubby, the spine tips and corners bumped with a few shallow chips and nicks, the joints rubbed and slightly chipped, the rear panel a little marked and the flaps toned, but nevertheless striking. A fascinating volume, not least for its highly unusual publication history. It was written in an encrypted notebook while he was incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. He'd made his publishers aware of the work and, upon his death, it was their duty to recover it, decrypt it, and publish it. Fallada was the pseudonym for Rudolf Ditzen whose early life was blighted by tragedy -- a serious horse accident at 16, typhoid at 17, and an attempted suicide pact by duel with his friend gone wrong, Ditzen surviving, his friend dying, and Ditzen charged with murder. He got off via insanity, and more tragedy awaited. The death of his brother during the First World War, and the loss of his baby at birth. It's no wonder, then, that he suffered with addiction to both alcohol and morphine, with the overbearing deathly shadow of National Socialism leaning over him. The novel is autobiographical and depicts one man's "hurtle into an abyss of degradation", condemning the reader "appalled but fascinated in the lurid outer courts of hell" [Manchester Guardian]. Scarce.
Published by Putnam and Co. Ltd, 1952
Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA : ILAB : PBFA, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Putnam and Co. Ltd., 1952 8vo., red cloth gilt to spine; brown unclipped pictorial dust wrapper decorated with an image of a man in a bar, printed in black, turquoise and white, from a design by Klaus Meyer (12s.6d.); pp. [vi], 282; endpapers lightly offset, with some marginal toning to edges of text block; light corner crease from p. 195 to 214, accompanied by some dulling; a very good copy in the very good, toned dust wrapper, which also has a couple of small creases and nicks to the upper edge. First English edition, translated from the German by Charlotte and A. L. Lloyd. Der Trinker was written in code in September 1944, while Ditzen was imprisoned in Mecklenburg on a charge of attempted murder. Earlier that year, a drunk Ditzen had been arguing with his ex wife when a shot was fired. Suse Ditzen subsequently picked up the gun and hit Ditzen over the head, and he was confined to a psychiatric institution. There, under the pretence of writing an anti-semitic novel for Goebbels, he obtained a supply of scarce wartime paper stock and wrote The Drinker in dense, overlapping script which served to mask its true identity. Later acquitted and released on grounds of insanity, Ditzen travelled to Berlin, where he died in 1947. The manuscript was only published due to the efforts of Herr Rowohlt, a German publisher who had visited Ditzen in jail and knew of the coded manuscript. What was revealed was a deeply critical autobiographical account of life under the Nazi regime, an act which, should it have been discovered, would have resulted in the death penalty. It was first published in German in 1950 and appeared here in English for the first time, two years later. Ditzen was a lifelong addict to alcohol pain medication, the result of having been run over and kicked in the face by a horse when he was just 16 years old. After the success of his novel Little Man What Now (1932), he had suffered a nervous breakdown, partly due to his rising anxiety about national socialism. On Easter Sunday, 1933, he was jailed by the Gestapo for "anti-Nazi activities", partly fuelled by his lack of participation in the Party. The Drinker draws on many of his lengthy experiences in the grip of alcohol addiction. The pseudonym 'Hans Fallada' comes from a combination of characters found in Grimm's fairy tales; Hans in Luck, and the talking horse in The Goose Girl. .
Published by London Putnam 1952, 1952
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, first printing. Published by Putnam in London, 1952. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper is finely illustrated by Klaus Meyer. It is slightly worn at the corners and bumped at the spine tips. It has not been price clipped. There is slight toning to it, with some minor handling marks throughout. The publisher's red cloth is lightly bumped at the corners and spine tips, with gilt lettering to the spine. The endpapers are clean, but with a bit of toning. The publisher's 'For Review' slip, printed on yellow Putnam headed paper, marks the date of publication (Feb 11.) and sale price (12s. 6d.). It is free from previous owner's ink. The top text block has some foxing, though the bottom and side remains clean. Overall, this is a near fine copy. "Der Tinker" was written in code in September 1944 while Fallada was in prison on a charge of attempted murder. His German publisher knew of its existence, found the manuscript and deciphered it, then published it under his imprint in 1950, three years after Fallada's death.