The Great Crusade

Gustav Regler. With a Preface by Ernest Hemingway. Stated first edition. New York: Longmans Green and Co., 1940. Both unclipped dust and hardcover are in Good+ and Very Good condition, respectively. No writing or markings in the book, 448 pp. Dust Jacket has a great deal of wear (but intact) with chipping and small tears along the edges. Original price $2.50 on inside flap. 

Gustav Regler — The Great Crusade (1940).

First English edition with a preface by Ernest Hemingway. Published by Longmans, Green and Co. Original unclipped dust jacket present, though showing heavy soiling and foxing throughout. A powerful semi-autobiographical war novel about the Spanish Civil War, written by Regler, a close friend of Hemingway. An important historical association copy for collectors of Hemingway-related works.

Ernest Hemingway and Gustav Regler met during the Spanish Civil War and became close friends. Hemingway admired Regler’s bravery and wrote the preface to The Great Crusade, calling him ‘one of the truest men I have ever known. The Hemingway preface stands as one of the strongest public endorsements he ever gave to a fellow writer.