Every Man Dies Alone – Hans Fallada
NF/NF

Description

For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, early printing hardcover copy of Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada. First Edition unstated, 2009 Melville House. First Melville House Printing stated March 2009.

The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, strong spine ends, mild edge wear, and one lightly bumped corner. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The rear end paper and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.

The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with heavy surface wear, mild edge wear, the price on the front flap and a creased rear flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.

Hans Fallada was one of Germany’s best-selling authors-ranking with Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse-prior to the rise of the Nazis. But while those writers fled Germany, Fallada stayed. Refusing to join the Nazi Party, he suffered numerous difficulties, including incarceration in an insane asylum. After the war, he wrote Every Man Dies Alone based on an actual Gestapo file. He died just before its publication in 1947.

Ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.