first edition Hardcover
1932 · Boston
by Broch, Hermann; Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1932. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 648pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth over boards, stamped in silver and red ink on the spine. Publisher's dark red topstain. Extremities lightly rubbed and bumped. Text block just beginning to crack at p. 321 (still very sturdy). A novel in three parts, and a study of the moral decay of German society between 1888 and 1918. (Inventory #: 68644)