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Los Angeles: Pazifische Presse, [1942]. 250 by 160 mm (9¾ by 6¼ inches). Unbound printer’s sheets. [8], 49, [2] pp. In German. Good plus, with light damage to top of pages and rear of last blank leaf.

This is the publisher’s copy of unbound and untrimmed sheets from the printer for the 2nd publication of the Pazifische Presse. Franz Werfel’s (1890–1945) story is about the difficulties confronting the Christian and Jewish faiths in Austria after 1938. From the Pazifische Presse archive and the collection of Felix Guggenheim.

Bibliography: Deutsches Exilarchiv 6417 & Roland Jaeger’s New Weimar on the Pacific. The Pazifische Presse and German Exile Publishing in Los Angeles 1942–48. Victoria Dailey Publisher, 2000.

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