Item #140944751 Das siebte Kreuz: Roman Aus Hitler deutschland (The Seventh Cross). Anna Seghers.
Das siebte Kreuz: Roman Aus Hitler deutschland (The Seventh Cross)
Das siebte Kreuz: Roman Aus Hitler deutschland (The Seventh Cross)
Das siebte Kreuz: Roman Aus Hitler deutschland (The Seventh Cross)
Das siebte Kreuz: Roman Aus Hitler deutschland (The Seventh Cross)
Das siebte Kreuz: Roman Aus Hitler deutschland (The Seventh Cross)

Das siebte Kreuz: Roman Aus Hitler deutschland (The Seventh Cross)

Mexico City: El Libro Libre, 1942.

First edition. 468, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's boards with orange and brown lettering. Main text in German; front flap text in English, rear flap in Spanish. Very Good+ with toning to boards, creasing vertically along spine, light edge wear, poet William Matchett's copy with his name on front free endpaper next to bookstore ticket. In a Very Good example of the very rare pictorial dust jacket, missing a triangular chip at the head, light dampstaining to spine panel, wear along edges.

One of the earliest depictions of concentration camps in fiction, written under a pen name by a German Jewish writer who fled the Nazis to Mexico. This unusual German-language publication there is the book's first appearance worldwide. It would be an immediate hit upon translation to English the following year, and inspire a 1944 film starring Spencer Tracy. The book would go on to be regarded as one of the major works of 20th century literature in German. Item #140944751

Price: $4,500.00

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