Address Unknown. by Taylor, Kressmann. [Katherine Taylor] - 1939.

New York:: Simon and schuster,, 1939.. First hardcover edition. First edition, third printing, stated. [First printing was Story Magazine, second in Readers Digest]. Rare.. Hardcover.. Published in book form in 1939, the book was banned in Germany, it was a huge success in the USA and much of Europe. Basis for 1944 film directed by William Cameron Menzies and starring Paul Lukas and Carl Esmond. ÒIn 1938 writer Kathrine Taylor wrote the novella Address Unknown, a biting indictment of the rise of Fascism in Germany. It was written as a series of letters sent between two partners in an art dealership, one a gentile who works in Munich, the other a Jew who stays in the main office in San Francisco. Under the masculine pen-name "Kressmann Taylor" the novella was serialized in Story magazine from September to October of 1938. Address Unknown was a sensation and was soon reprinted in Reader's Digest and became a best-seller when published by Simon & Schuster in 1939. The book was translated across Europe, though the German translation was published in Moscow and, of course, banned by the Nazis.Ó [- Turner Classic Movies].