NACHKRIEG by Renn, Ludwig [ pseud. of A.F.V. von Golssenau] - 1930

Vienna & Berlin: Agis-Verlag, 1930. Plain wrappers. Some tanning and foxing early and late, but a good copy in worn dust jacket missing a large section at the top edge of the front and spine panels. First edition (1st through 20th thousands). Inscribed by the author on the half-title: "Dem Genossen [i.e. comrade] John Hermann und der Genossin Josephine Herbst Ludvig Renn Moskau 29. Oktober 1930." Renn became a communist after World War I, the subject of his most famous novel, KRIEG (1928). This novel depicts the political strife in the postwar years in the Weimar Republic. He traveled widely in the Soviet Union, was jailed after Hitler's rise to power, escaped and fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, and eventually returned to East Germany in 1947. This is an extremely sympathetic association copy, recording his meeting with fellow radical novelists Herbst and Hermann during their own visit to the Soviet Union in 1930.