Marble Cliffs by Junger Ernst (26 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 136 pages. 7.91x5.00x0.43 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Penguin Edition. 1970. 116pp plus 4 pages publisher's ads. Cover illustration from a painting by August Macke. Ernst Junger's allegorical novel, first published in 1939. Translated by Stuart Hood. Pages browning. Light wear to covers and slight browning to spine. Signature of Scottish novelist and poet Colin Mackay inside the front cover.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. Spanish language. 8.10x5.50x0.70 inches. In Stock.

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Condition: New. Ernst J&uumlnger (1895&ndash1998) was a German philosopher, writer, and entomologist who became widely known for Storm of Steel, his memoir of World War I. He was the author of six novels, including The Glass Bees (available from NYRB.

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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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Translated from the German by Stuart Hood. Publisher's original blue cloth; stamped in black to spine. 120pp. Cloth faded and very slightly soiled; edges a little rubbed. Lacking dust jacket. *** Scarce first English edition of Junger's debut novel, published in Germany on the brink of the Second World War. The book is often seen allegory of totalitarian politics and criticism of Hitler's National Socialism. Until the publication of this novel, Junger was best known for his non-fiction, including his World War 1 memoir Storm of Steel. The novel somehow escaped the censors, probably because Junger was well respected in Nazi circles.

First edition. Hardcover. A bit of edge foxing and some light offsetting on the endpapers, a neat ownership signature on the top corner of the front free endpaper, otherwise very good in very good dustjacket with a couple small professional tears (sterling price intact). Translated from the German by Stuart Hood. A novel published in Junger's homeland just before WWII (in a 'magic realism' style, a strange drama that developes into an unmistakeable parable of the impetus to evil of the emerging Nazi regime)--a study of the essential nature of tyranny. The UK edition in the strikingly illustrated jacket by Leonard Rosoman is uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First American Edition, 1st Printing. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. A presentable first American printing of Ernst Juenger's first novel, a "mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism" (New York Review of Books). Shockingly originally published in 1939 in Germany, decorated WWI German soldier Ernst Juenger's first novel is set in a serene agricultural society undergoing upheaval and ruin through the strategies by which tyranny and authoritarianism take power. As the front flap of its notoriously fragile dust jacket notes: "It is hard to understand how On the Marble Cliffs could have been published in the Germany of 1939. For although it is an allegory, its intention can hardly have been mistaken; it is a study of the nature of tyranny, showing by what processes a totalitarian regime wins its hold over a free people," even unto the portrayal or perhaps prediction of the death camps Hitler's Germany would become infamous for. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". v, 120pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved jacket. Fragile original dust jacket shows long splits along edge of spine at front panel, still attached, with chipping to head and tail of spine and at edges and folds, and neat tear to upper marging of rear panel, with no losses. Front flap clipped, but price present on rear flap. Bound in blue cloth over boards, with spine lettered in black. Gentle rubbing and bumping to extremities. Toning to endpapers. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. From the rear cover: "Juenger showed great courage in publishing this book at the time he did, for it is a balance sheet of the depravity, the nihilism, and the destruction of all moral values that were the Hitler regime; it marked, however, a complete break with the author's past. It is an anti-Nazi document, but it is also one of the most beautiful novels of the imagination of modern Germany, an allegory of the death of a civilization in the grand symbolist manner." - Louis Clair, review for The Nation, March 1948. "I regard On The Marble Cliffs as a little masterpiece, recording the struggle of the human spirit in our time. I know Juenger's earlier record, and I know that he flirted for a time in the antechambers of Nazi thinking. But that's why this book of his, written on the high tide of Hitler's power comes with all the greater force as an intellectual and moral rejection of any form of tyranny. It is a dense and yet somehow luminous allegory. It has an almost insupportable richness of language and imagery. It could not have been written except by a man within whose own heart the deepest forces of our time have fought it out like a coil of wild serpents. This book is one of the few literary monuments that stand out on the desert waste of Hitler's Germany." - Max Lerner.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First English edition, first printing. 120pp. Blue cloth, Navy stamped spine lettering. Some faint offsetting to spine and endpapers, owners's names to FFEP and their bookplate to front pastedown, otherwise an exceedingly and uncommonly clean and fresh copy with sharp edges; the notoriously fragile DJ is torn nearly through along the rear hinge, a bit off loss to tips and a small puncture the the spine between 'The' and 'Marble'. 'Juenger showed great courage in publishing this book at the time he did, for it is a balance sheet of the depravity, the nihilism, and the destruction of all moral values that were the Hitler regime; it marked, however, a complete break with the author's past. It is an anti-Nazi document, but it is also one of the most beautiful novels of the imagination of modern Germany, an allegory of the death of a civilization in the grand symbolist manner.' -- Louis Clair 'I regard On The Marble Cliffs as a little masterpiece, recording the struggle of the human spirit in our time. I know Juenger's earlier record, and I know that he flirted for a time in the antechambers of Nazi thinking. But that's why this book of his, written on the high tide of Hitler's power comes with ali the greater force as an intellectual and moral rejection of any form of tyranny. It is a dense and yet somehow luminous allegory. It has an almost insupportable richness of language and imagery. It could not have been written except by a man within whose own heart the deepest forces of our time have fought it out like a coil of wild serpents. This book is one of the few literary monuments that stand out on the desert waste of Hitler's Germany.' - Max Lerner.

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