THE TRIUMPH OF YOUTH by Jacob Wassermann - 1928

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927 1st ed. 205pp. navy cloth sm 8vo w/gilt titles: Good/no dj [half-title p. is neatly slit in gutter near bottom margin; couple of torn pages in blank margins not affecting test; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A novel in English translation by the prolific German Jewish writer Wassermann (1873-1934).

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Clean, square, unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. Bound in the original gilt-decorated blue cloth. With blue endpapers in geometric patterns printed in shades of blue. Novel set in 17th century Germany. From the book's review in TIME Magazine (June 6, 1927): "Bishop Philip Adolph of Wurzburg has a sister-in-law, Baroness Theodata of Ehrenburg and a nephew, her son, Ernest. It is because of Ernest's remarkable propensity for inventing fictions that his uncle, personifying the credulous cruelty of the early 17th Century, supposes the youth to be inhabited by evil powers. The child is clapped into a dungeon, made to watch his erratically lovely mother undergo tortures, urged like Joan of Arc to confess sins of whose existence he is unaware. The triumph of youth is achieved when thousands of children who have listened to his stories with love and wonder flock to prevent his execution. A dancing and delicate wit inhabit Author… Read More

George Allen and Unwin Ltd , 1930. Reprint . Hardcover. Good/Good. Translated from the German. Reprint, 1930. Cheaper Edition. Publication of 232 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. There are minor marks on the spine of the dust jacket as well as on the boards. The boards remains strong. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1928. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. green cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 232 pp first UK edition spine cocked covers worn on the edges Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.