Ewen frederic 1899 1988 (2 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: very good dust-jacket, rubbed and scuffed, with some wear around edges, cover price $10.00, attractive copy, near fine blue cloth. EWEN, FREDERIC. Bertolt Brecht: his life, his art, and his times. New York: Citadel Press, 1967, stated First Edition, 573pp., . Author photo on rear flap by Judith Liegner / dust-jacket design by Harsh/Finegold Inc. Unknown today, Ewen was a heroic figure o intellectualf resistance in the McCarthy era. - "The present work was undertaken with the object of presenting Brecht as a poet, playwright, theoretician of the drama, story-teller, and thinker, and set him against the background of German and world history, of which he was so very much a part." -- Preface (page 17). - CONTENTS: The world around Brecht -- Bertolt Brecht in Germany 1898-1933 -- Exile 1933-1948 -- Homecoming.…

First Edition. [Biography] FIRST EDITION, literary agency copy. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.573; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt and green to spine, light green endpapers, typographic dust-jacket designed by Harsh/ Finegold, with printed price $10.00 to front flap. With black and white illustrations throughout. Literary agency copy with 'Scott Meredith' bookplate. Literary agency bookplate and previous ownership inscription to free endpaper, bumping to spine, rubbing and tearing to dust-jacket spine and edges. Very good. A definitive study of the complex writer, Brecht, discussing his life in Weimar Germany and the fight against the Nazi philosophy.…