A Penny For The Poor

New York: Hillman-Curl, 1938. First Edition in English; first American edition. Translated from the German by Desmond I. Vesey. Verses translated by Christopher Isherwood. Inscribed by the author in 1946 to Saul Bellow’s especially close friend and attorney (as well as the model for Harvey Simkin in Herzog), “for Sam Goldberg with best wishes bertolt brecht, ‘46 N.Y.C.” While Brecht’s letters are not uncommon, we recall having but a single inscribed book in the past, and can’t recall even seeing another. This novel followed the Threepenny Opera by several years, and while it features some of the same characters and situations, it is not a novelization of that celebrated work. However, if a signed Brecht is sought, one so closely related to that play would be the most desirable. The back cover cloth, extending onto the spine, is waterstained, affecting as well the back panel of the mended dust jacket and the edges of a few pages of text.

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Price: $6,500.00

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