VON HOLLANDER, Walther. Ten Years - Ten Days
VON HOLLANDER, Walther. Ten Years - Ten Days. Trans. from the German by Lilian Wonderley. Foreword by Gerald Gould. London: Hurst & Blackett. 1933. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine panel and upper board, in the marvellous dust jacket designed by Philip Youngman Carter. A very good copy, the cloth quite faintly marked to top corner of front board, the binding tight and very narrowly rolled. The textblock clean, the contents fine throughout. The striking dust jacket with price of 7/6 net to spine panel, with remnants of an amended price sticker just above. Some loss around the spine head and front panel corner, other edges with small tears, nicks and slight bumps, but not detracting that wonderful design.
Walther von Hollander made his fame in cinema as a screenwriter, but wrote a handful of novels before then--I believe only this one made its way into English. The story concerns three generations of the aristocratic Dahl family, one of which shoots his brother, spends ten years in a mental institution, passes ten days in questionable freedom, and finally shoots himself.
VON HOLLANDER, Walther. Ten Years - Ten Days. Trans. from the German by Lilian Wonderley. Foreword by Gerald Gould. London: Hurst & Blackett. 1933. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine panel and upper board, in the marvellous dust jacket designed by Philip Youngman Carter. A very good copy, the cloth quite faintly marked to top corner of front board, the binding tight and very narrowly rolled. The textblock clean, the contents fine throughout. The striking dust jacket with price of 7/6 net to spine panel, with remnants of an amended price sticker just above. Some loss around the spine head and front panel corner, other edges with small tears, nicks and slight bumps, but not detracting that wonderful design.
Walther von Hollander made his fame in cinema as a screenwriter, but wrote a handful of novels before then--I believe only this one made its way into English. The story concerns three generations of the aristocratic Dahl family, one of which shoots his brother, spends ten years in a mental institution, passes ten days in questionable freedom, and finally shoots himself.
VON HOLLANDER, Walther. Ten Years - Ten Days. Trans. from the German by Lilian Wonderley. Foreword by Gerald Gould. London: Hurst & Blackett. 1933. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine panel and upper board, in the marvellous dust jacket designed by Philip Youngman Carter. A very good copy, the cloth quite faintly marked to top corner of front board, the binding tight and very narrowly rolled. The textblock clean, the contents fine throughout. The striking dust jacket with price of 7/6 net to spine panel, with remnants of an amended price sticker just above. Some loss around the spine head and front panel corner, other edges with small tears, nicks and slight bumps, but not detracting that wonderful design.
Walther von Hollander made his fame in cinema as a screenwriter, but wrote a handful of novels before then--I believe only this one made its way into English. The story concerns three generations of the aristocratic Dahl family, one of which shoots his brother, spends ten years in a mental institution, passes ten days in questionable freedom, and finally shoots himself.