[Rarebooks] FS: New Weimar on the Pacific

[Karen Howell]

Offered today:

Jaeger, Roland. 

New Weimar on the Pacific: The Pazifische Press, German Exile Publishing in Los Angeles 1942-48.

Los Angeles: Victoria Dailey Publisher, 2000.

Series: Exiles in Angeltown, Vol. 1. 

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED to 300 copies, edited and designed by Victoria Dailey. 

Translated from the German by Marion Philadelphia and edited by Victoria Dailey. 

8vo.  9 1/2 x 6 5/16 inches.  87 pp. 

Printed on laid paper, black-and-white frontispiece, title-page vignette, 17 black-and-white photographic illustrations; text clean, un-marked.  Black cloth spine, printed paper over boards, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight, no dust-jacket.  Fine. 

The story of the Pazifische Press and the role it played in providing a voice in their native tongue to the German exiles living in Los Angeles during the Second World War.  Includes a bibliography of the all of the eleven titles published.  The story of the Pazifische Press and the role it played in providing a voice in their native tongue to the German exiles living in Los Angeles during the Second World War.  Includes a bibliography of the all of the eleven titles published by such well-known authors as Thomas Mann, Franz Werfel, Lion Feuchtwanger, Bruno Franck, Alfred Neumann, Friedrich Torberg, Leonard Franc and Alfred Doblin.  The publications of the Pazifische Presse were printed in small editions by Saul Marks at the Plantin Press and are sought after examples of literary courage and artistic merit. 

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