First edition of this important account of the emigration of "those creative artists and thinkers for whom existence under the swastika became intolerable" (cover).
Very good plus in very good minus jacket.
Price: $850.00
"[T]he weapons of the troops of liberty are whispered words, their bombs are thin sheets of closely printed paper."
Erika Mann, daughter of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann, was long persistent in her criticism of the Nazi regime. Her best-selling SCHOOL FOR BARBARIANS — published just the year before ESCAPE — was, along with this title (written with her brother), one of the most impactful pieces of pre-war opposition. Mann — who at various points worked as a travel writer, war reporter, radio broadcaster, cabaret owner, actress, and literary executor for her father — was forced to flee Germany in 1933 herself and later gained British citizenship by way of a marriage of convenience with poet W.H. Auden. While BARBARIANS focused on German fascist propaganda and education, ESCAPE details those writers, scholars, scientists, intellectuals, and artists who fled Germany beginning in 1933 to escape the censorship and oppression of the Nazi regime. Increasingly uncommon in the first edition, especially so in jacket.
First printing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. 8.5'' x 5.5'' Original full red cloth stamped in blue and gold. In original price-clipped pictorial jacket. 384 pages. Jacket rubbed and edgeworn, with some creasing and like soil. Book has touches of shelfwear at extremities. Else clean and sound.
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