FRIED, A[lfred] H[ermann] - Translated from the German by S. Van Straalen: THE DIARY OF A CONDEMNED MAN

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FRIED, A[lfred] H[ermann] - Translated from the German by S. Van Straalen : THE DIARY OF A CONDEMNED MAN

LONDON.WILLIAM HEINEMANN,1899.

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UK,12mo HB,1st edn.VG+.Two separate owner's inked names - one crossed through - to the half-title page - the remaining name being handwritten again,to the title page.Publisher's original vertically-ribbed,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver decoration to upper bd of a guillotine and bright,crisp, stamped silver gilt letters to upper bd and also to spine/backstrip - no oxidisation; rear bd plain black cloth with publisher's impressed initials within a small circle.Some inevitable but negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners,no major nicks or tears present. Off-set foxing to both front+rear pastedowns and free endpapers.Top+fore- edges lightly aged/toned but both foxing- free; chain-laid paper contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound; with minimal, intermittent foxing to text body,some page edge toning,but no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread - apart from my own collation.UK, 12mo HB, 1st edn,viiipp+2-177pp (signatures A - M) [paginated] includes condemned man's diary account from November 3rd (1896) to his execution 16th May,1897,a facsimile last letter to his wife and a facsimile newspaper report of the execution,a 32pp publisher's catalogue dated April 1898,to rear,plus [unpaginated] publisher's advert, half-title+title pages,and a preface by Prof. Ludwig Buchner. First published 1898 in German,the first original work of the future Nobel Peace Prize winner,an imaginary prison journal conveying the horrors and inhumanity of capital punishment.This is the first English translation.A very SCARCE edn. Alfred Hermann Fried,born Vienna,11th November 1864 and died 5th May 1921,was an Austrian Jewish pacifist,publicist, journalist,co-founder of the German peace movement in 1892,and winner,with Tobias Asser,of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,12mo HB,1st edn.
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