[Rarebooks] FS: GERMAN EXILE LITERATURE

[Norman Kane]

We can offer 2 scarce works of poetry by Hans Marchwitza, German 
proletarian novelist & poet.  Both are firsts in the original printed 
wrappers.  Marchwitza (1890-1965) worked as a youth in the coal mines of 
the Ruhr. He left Germany in 1933, fought in  the International Brigade in 
Spain, was interned in France in 1938, fled to the US in 1941, and returned 
to the GDR in 1946.

WETTERLEUCHTEN. GEDICHTE. A COLLECTION OF ANTI-FASCIST POEMS.  N.Y.: The 
Author, 1942.  1st edn.  Small tear at top inner corner of front 
cover.  Small neat gift inscription at top of title page.  32pp.

UNTERGRUND.  GEDICHTE. A COLLECTION OF ANTI-FASCIST POEMS.  N.Y.: The 
Author, 1942.
1st edition.  46, [2]pp.  Zeidler Press imprint on last page.

EACH $55.00.  THE 2, $100.00


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