Description
For sale is a rare and exceptional first edition, first printing of The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink by Pamela Katz, protected in an archival wrap. First Edition described, 2015 Nan Talese. First Printing with full number line reversed, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
The exterior of the book is in Near Fine condition, with clean, bright boards with a partial crease on the rear board. Also, strong title gilt on a straight spine, light smudges on the top page block, a tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly bumped/rubbed corners. 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 any other signs of ownership. The end papers 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 price on the front flap, and moderate to heavy surface wear and edge wear. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Among the most creative and outsized personalities of the Weimar Republic, that sizzling yet decadent epoch between the Great War and the Nazis’ rise to power, were the renegade poet Bertolt Brecht and the rebellious avant-garde composer Kurt Weill. These two young geniuses and the three women vital to their work—actresses Lotte Lenya and Helene Weigel and writer Elizabeth Hauptmann—joined talents to create the theatrical and musical masterworks The Threepenny Opera and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, only to split in rancor as their culture cracked open and their aesthetic and temperamental differences became irreconcilable. The Partnership is the first book to tell the full story of Brecht and Weill’s impulsive, combustible partnership, the compelling psychological drama of one of the most important creative collaborations of the past century. It is also the first book to give full credit where it is richly due to the three women whose creative gifts contributed enormously to their masterworks. And it tells the thrilling and iconic story of artistic daring entwined with sexual freedom during the Weimar Republic’s most fevered years, a time when art and politics and society were inextricably mixed.
Ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
