HEYM, Stefan. Of Smiling Peace
HEYM, Stefan [FLIEG, Helmut]. Of Smiling Peace. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1944. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered strikingly in black to the spine and front panel, in the dust jacket drawn by George F. Kelley.
The second novel by the Jewish German, written under his Heym pseudonym. A novel that focuses on the ‘gigantic gambit of war and politics’ about the ‘hazards of victory’. At the time, Flieg had moved to the USA, serving as a Ritchie Boy in counterintelligence. A proponent of peace and antifascism from a young age, he came under pressure post-war, facing an investigation by the House of Un-American Activities. He fled to his homeland East Germany, campaigning for socialist and anti-capitalist rights after reunification.
A fine book, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout with some very minor marks to the top edge only. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50) and complete, near fine with a few closed tears and associated creasing, a few instances of rubbing to the spine tips and joints, but a handsome copy overall and uncommon as such.
HEYM, Stefan [FLIEG, Helmut]. Of Smiling Peace. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1944. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered strikingly in black to the spine and front panel, in the dust jacket drawn by George F. Kelley.
The second novel by the Jewish German, written under his Heym pseudonym. A novel that focuses on the ‘gigantic gambit of war and politics’ about the ‘hazards of victory’. At the time, Flieg had moved to the USA, serving as a Ritchie Boy in counterintelligence. A proponent of peace and antifascism from a young age, he came under pressure post-war, facing an investigation by the House of Un-American Activities. He fled to his homeland East Germany, campaigning for socialist and anti-capitalist rights after reunification.
A fine book, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout with some very minor marks to the top edge only. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50) and complete, near fine with a few closed tears and associated creasing, a few instances of rubbing to the spine tips and joints, but a handsome copy overall and uncommon as such.
HEYM, Stefan [FLIEG, Helmut]. Of Smiling Peace. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1944. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered strikingly in black to the spine and front panel, in the dust jacket drawn by George F. Kelley.
The second novel by the Jewish German, written under his Heym pseudonym. A novel that focuses on the ‘gigantic gambit of war and politics’ about the ‘hazards of victory’. At the time, Flieg had moved to the USA, serving as a Ritchie Boy in counterintelligence. A proponent of peace and antifascism from a young age, he came under pressure post-war, facing an investigation by the House of Un-American Activities. He fled to his homeland East Germany, campaigning for socialist and anti-capitalist rights after reunification.
A fine book, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout with some very minor marks to the top edge only. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50) and complete, near fine with a few closed tears and associated creasing, a few instances of rubbing to the spine tips and joints, but a handsome copy overall and uncommon as such.