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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 1st Edition. Deckled edges. Dust staining to top edge. Heavy rubbing to spine title, gilt stamping has been worn off. Rubbing and slight soiling to cloth binding. Abrasions to cloth binding on rear cover, seemingly from bleach or another spray. Previous sellers stamp to r.f.e.p. Slight toning to edges of leaves. Condition has been noted. VG.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$71.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 448 S. OLwd. Erstausgabe. Kap. berieben.Vorderdeckel fleckig. Innen tadellos.
Seller: Antiquariaat Die Sammlung, Amsterdam Zuidoost, Netherlands
Regler, Gustav. The Great Crusade. Longmans, Green & Co., New York / Toronto, 1940.
Price: US$90.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Preface by Ernest Hemingway. 5-3/4" x 8-1/4", xiii + 448pp. Printed on acidic paper and bound in sewn signatures in maroon cloth boards with illustrated end papers. Edge fading, light soiling, edge wear, corner bumping to cover. Jacket, which is price clipped, is faded at spine, though title block remains clearly legible. There is a 1/4" x 2" section missing out of the edge of the jacket at the top of the spine and some chipping at the base of the spine, otherwise some edge wear, shelf wear, age discoloration (visible on predominantly white back cover) to jacket. Fore edge is deckled. Binding is square and tight. Pp. 202-203 noticeably tanned as a result of offsetting from a news clipping laid in. Pages are otherwise gentle age toned but clean and unmarked.
Seller: The People's Co-op Bookstore, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Cloth with dust jacket. Very good copy in good dust jacket. Book with no major flaws, few little streaks of discoloration at top edge of rear board, where the jacket was once in wet contact with the board. Contemporary owner's name (Esther Solar) on half-title. Dust jacket generally worn along the top edge with a triangular chip there on the front and rear panels, top of spine panel shallowly chipped, old nonprofessional tape repairs along the hinge to the back inside flap on the blank side of the jacket. Price of $2.50 intact on front flap. Map endpapers of the battlegrounds around Madrid. A memoir of the Spanish Civil War. Regler served as political commissar of the XII International Brigade; at the time a convinced Communist with years of experience in the Soviet-led movement, he later broke with the Communists based among other factors on his experiences in Spain.
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red cloth, edge rubbed, with a hint of fraying at spine heel. Age toning at page edges, endpapers. In edge worn, age toned, and chipped DJ, with chips missing at DJ spine head and heel, top front corner, top rear, and small chips missing at all DJ flap corners. DJ is still bright, and is now protected in a mylar jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 448 pages
Seller: Liberty Book Shop, Avis, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$178.95 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first edition. Scarce. Maroon cloth boards, gilt stamped spine titles, lt. shelf wear. Deckled pages fine, no writing. Map endpapers of Madrid battle zones. Bind fine; hinges intact. Dj some edge wear, chip, rub; unclipped 2.50, protected in new clear sleeve. One year after Hitler came to power, Gustav Regler became Public Enemy #19. He fled Gremany and eventually joined the International Brigade, fought in its campaigns around Madrid, was wounded and returned to France where he ended up in a concentration camp after the beginning of the war. This book documents the battles around Madrid and is an important part of twenitieth century history told by a participant. Printed in the United States of America. 448 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
[HEMINGWAY, Ernest] REGLER, Gustav.. The Great Crusade.. Longmans Green, New York, 1940.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: With a Preface by Ernest Hemingway. 448 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First US edition. A very good copy in a very good jacket with some light chipping to edges (not affecting any lettering or design).
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest; REGLER, Gustav. The Great Crusade. Longmans, Green and Co., 1940.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated First Edition. With a Preface by Ernest Hemingway. Translated by Whittaker Chambers and Barrows Mussey. Slight toning. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear, toning, large chips.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Advance publicity pamphlet consisting of 16 pages, wire stapled into the dust jacket of the book. Page 1 is the title page, next page is a brief bio of Gustav Regler, followed by Ernest Hemingway's preface, printed in full, five pages written in Camaguey, Cuba, 1940, followed by 6 pages of text by Regler. See Audre Hanneman: Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography, pages 109-110, "Note: The publishers issued a sixteen-page promotion leaflet, three months before book publication, which included Hemingway's preface in full. The preface is briefly quoted on the back cover of the dust jacket." Near fine with only minor wear along the extremities. Given the fragile nature of this item, it is in remarkably nice condition. Quite scarce and desirable.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. REGLER, Gustav.. The Great Crusade.. Longmans, Green and Co., New York, 1940.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: With a Preface by Ernest Hemingway. Translated by Whittaker Chambers and Barrows Mussey. xiii, 6 pp. 8vo, original dust jacket employed as printed wrappers. First edition of the 16-page promotional leaflet issued three months before the book, with Hemingway's preface in full. Hannemann B-38 (note). Small glue stain inside the front cover from a bookplate which is now laid in; otherwise a fine copy with the very slightest of use along the edges.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Advance excerpt stapled into the dust jacket, as issued. Translated by Whittaker Chambers and Barrows Mussey. Octavo. [16]pp. Two tiny tears on front of the jacket, else very near fine. Uncommon and desirable Hemingway ephemera, reprinting the entirety of Hemingway's preface, as well as the first few pages of the book. An account of the fight against fascism in Spain. Additionally, there is a long Hemingway blurb on the rear panel of the jacket. Seldom encountered in this format.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
[HEMINGWAY, Ernest] REGLER, Gustav.. The Great Crusade.. Longmans Green, New York, 1940.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: With a Preface by Ernest Hemingway. 448 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First US edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The pamphlet is near fine. Accompanied by the 16-page promotional leaflet, stapled into a copy of the dust jacket, as issued.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.