2 Carl von Clausewitz first editions are documented on this shelf, from On War (Vom Kriege) (1832) to Vom Kriege (On War) (1832) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Carl von Clausewitz title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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On War (Vom Kriege) — 1832 · Ferdinand DümmlerTrue first (German): Berlin, printed by Trowitzsch and son for Ferdinand Dümmler. Vom Kriege occupies volumes 1-3 of the posthumous ten-volume Hinterlassene Werke des Generals Carl von Clausewitz über Krieg und Kriegführung, the three volumes appearing 1832-34 and the full ten-volume set running 1832-37; octavo (approx. 202 x 120 mm), the complete set containing two folding engraved maps and one folding table.…. Census claim confirmed. The Dümmler German text is the true first and the original-language edition; the 1832-34 volumes 1-3 constitute the first edition of Vom Kriege proper, with volumes 4-10 containing Clausewitz's separate campaign studies rather than On War. Both are collected: the Berlin Dümmler original, and Graham's 1873 Trübner three-volume London edition as the first appearance in English. No book-club issue applies to a work of this date. The principal trap is scope: Vom Kriege is volumes 1-3 only, and sets or single volumes from the Hinterlassene Werke are sometimes offered as 'On War, first edition' when they are in fact campaign volumes (vol. 4 Italien 1796; vols. 5-6 Italien und der Schweiz 1799; vol. 7 Rußland 1812/1813/Frankreich 1814; vol. 8 Frankreich 1815; vols. 9-10 Gustav Adolph,….
Vom Kriege (On War) — 1832 · Ferdinand Dümmler, BerlinThe first edition is the Berlin printing by Ferdinand Dümmler, issued posthumously by Clausewitz's widow Marie von Clausewitz. Vom Kriege is not a standalone book: it occupies volumes 1-3 of "Hinterlassene Werke des Generals Carl von Clausewitz über Krieg und Kriegführung," with volume 1 dated 1832, volume 2 dated 1833, and volume 3 dated 1834. The complete Hinterlassene Werke extends to ten volumes published…. The German Berlin first of 1832-34 is the true first and the census claim is confirmed, with two refinements. First, the first English translation in book form is J.J. Graham's "On War," London: N. Trübner & Co., 1873, in three volumes — but it is not the first English appearance of Clausewitz: an earlier partial English translation ran serially in 1835 in The Metropolitan Magazine and in The Military and Naval…. No book-club edition — the date precludes it. Reprint tells are imprint- and statement-based: later Dümmler printings carry "Zweite Auflage" (1853) or "Dritte Auflage" (1867-69) and are not the first. Any single-volume or three-volumes-in-one "Vom Kriege" is a later edition; the first is inseparable from the Hinterlassene Werke series title and its 1832/1833/1834 volume dates. Twentieth-century German scholarly….

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