The Lost Library : The Autobiography of a Culture by Mehring, Walter - 1951

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1951. Hardcover . Good. 8vo 290 pp. back cover pasty book plate sfep Exile writer. Literary and intellectual history.Reassembling the books in his father's library after receiving them in exile.

London: Secker & Warburg. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Cloth. Dust jacket very good several closed tears. Jacket by Michael Kennard. Dark pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. Very good, bumping to edges. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Bookseller label inside rear board ( Laurel Book Service) First edition, 290 pages with index; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. B000RB4RJC . Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. No statement of printing. Near fine in a near fine (light rubbing on rear panel) dust jacket. An attractive, well preserved copy. .

Indianapolis/N.Y.,: Bobbs-Merrill Co.,, 1951. 8°, roter OLwdbd.m. goldgeprägt. VDeckel-Vign., unbeschnitten, Ex Libris; schönes Expl. Erste Ausgabe; W/G² 25.

INDIANAP, BOBBS, 1951. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F.

Inidanapolis IN, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1951. 290 pages. Pages v/g condition. Endpapers lighlty yellowed. Previous owner's name on ffep. Coral colored cloth, black illustration on upper cover and black title on spine. Head/tail of spine, edges and corners lightly worn. VG+. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1951. Very Good. The Autobiography of a Culture, in Very Good condition (slight moisture mark to inside back cover) other wise tight binding with no marks

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. DJ in archival cover. Stated first edition. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1946.

Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.,, 1951. First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Becky and Bernard Reis, in admiration of their distinguished selection of Art chef d'oeuvres, Walter Mehring, New York, 1952". Rebecca Reis was a significant New York art collector; her husband was an accountant who served as a financial advisor and patron to many artists and was executor of the Rothko estate. Mehring was a satirical Jewish author whose outspoken attacks on anti-Semitism brought him to the attention of the Nazis. His books were burned by the Brownshirts and he was forced to flee Germany, arranging for his late father's extensive library to be smuggled out after him. While Mehring managed to escape, his library was confiscated and destroyed. The loss provided the starting point for the present book. "It is with love and not a little bitterness that the author touches on the various tomes of his father's library [and through them] on… Read More