The Examination
Torberg, Friedrich
Published by London: Chatto & Windus, 1932
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18.5 x 13.5 cm. 310 pp. Unclipped jacket is generally clean with minor top edge wear; 'Autumn Fiction' list to rear panel includes Lehmann's Invitation to Waltz and Powys's The Two Thieves.Orange cloth with dark brown titles to spine: clean and bright with minor corner bumping only. Neat owner's name and date to FEP. Entirely clean throughout with A1 binding. Uncommon. Seller Inventory # 2305
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Title: The Examination
Publisher: London: Chatto & Windus
Publication Date: 1932
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
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THE EXAMINATION
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Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
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First edition, first printing. Original orange cloth lettered in black to the spine. Lacking the dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the contents bright and clean throughout. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Lightly faded to the spine, the cloth showing a few spots and surface marks. A few light spots to fore- and upper edges of the page block. A clean, sound copy of an uncommon volume. Translated from the original German by F. A. Voigt. Fredrich Torberg (1908-1979; his real surname was Kantor) was active in the Prague and Viennese literary world during 1920s and 1930s, where he counted Karl Kraus, Franz Werfel, Robert Musil, and Hermann Broch among his friends. 'The Examination', Torberg's first novel, and seemingly the sole work of his to be translated into English tells the story of the eighteen-year old Kurt Gerber, persecuted during his final year at school by a sadistic maths teacher. The book was partly prompted by the author's own experiences taking his final school-leaving examination, but also by the suicides of ten students during a single week in the winter of 1929. Torberg was encouraged to send the novel to a publisher by Franz Kafka's famous confidant, Max Brod. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Seller Inventory # 26243
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The Examination
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Seller: Undercover Books, Norwich, NFK, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 18.5 x 14 cm. 310 pp. Unclipped jacket is generally clean with minor top edge wear; 'Autumn Fiction' list to rear panel includes Lehmann's Invitation to Waltz and Powys's The Two Thieves .Orange cloth with dark brown titles to spine: clean and bright with minor corner bumping only. Neat owner's name and date to FEP. Entirely clean throughout with A1 binding. Uncommon. Seller Inventory # 2317
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THE EXAMINATION
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CHATTO & WINDUS, LONDON, 1932
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Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, ORIGINAL DUST JACKET PRICED AT 7s. 6d, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 7 + 310 PAGES. EDGE WEAR & CREASES TO JACKET WITH SOME CHIPPING & LOSS TO JACKET AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE, FEW MINOR MARKS TO CLOTH SPINE, NAME TO FRONT INNER BOARD, SOME FOXING MOSTLY TO PAGE FORE-EDGES & OCCASIONAL PAGE MARGINS. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS SOME REFLECTIONS PRESENT IN IMAGES FROM THE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX. Seller Inventory # 0064350-NL49
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The Examination. Translated by F.A. Voigt.
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Chatto & Windus, 1932
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Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
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FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, spots to borders of final few leaves, pp. [vi], 310, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in black and faded, spots of discolouration to boards, light spotting to edges, ownership inscription to flyleaf, dustjacket darkened around the backstrip panel, very good. Scarce. A novel of oppressive schooling, in part based on the authors own experiences but also evoking the spate of suicides among schoolchildren in 1929, a fact noted by the author early in the text. Torberg's work, 'Der Schüler Gerber hat absolviert', was banned by the Nazis; it ranks with the earlier 'Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß', by fellow-Austrian Robert Musil (who admired Torberg's novel) as a study of the brutal and often tragic power imbalance within an educational setting, as a microcosm of intergenerational encounters within the wider society. The author's first novel, which he was encouraged to publish by Max Brod. The only one of his works to be translated into English. Seller Inventory # 72826
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