THE PRENTENDER by Lion Feuchtwanger. Translated from German to English by Willa Edwin Muir. New York: The Viking Press, 1937. First American edition, first printing. "Published in May 1937" statement to the copyright page. Originally published in 1936 in Amsterdam as DER FALSCHE NERO. An historical novel featuring the ambitious and freed Roman slave, Terentius Maximus, who had claimed to be Nero. Feuchtwanger, the fiercely outspoken pre-war anti-Nazi writer, and German Jewish playwright and novelist (who escaped to the U.S. after internment in concentration camps), portrays the historical look-alike, power-monger fraud, Terentius to be comparative with Hitler. Light age-toning to the end-sheets as usual, else fine in deep-red linen with blind embossed titles and border to the front cover and with gilt embossed titles and decorative rules to spine, deckle page fore-edges; in a very good dust jacket with some crimps and tears to the edges, chipping to the upper spine edge, a chip to the lower inside corner of the rear panel, a touch of age-toning to the color-bright and un-faded spine panel; original printed $2.50 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 440 pages. Please note* the dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable, protective sleeve after scanning for this entry. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FICTION BOOKS THANKS!