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18 STORIES. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz
Edition: First paper edition
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. Card covers. Orange spine letters faded, VG+ otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53544More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
Adam International Review No. 254, and Encore, The Drama Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 4
London: Adam International Review, 1956. Octavo, 32 pp, stapled, in card covers. VG copy, edges tanned, notes in pen on back cover. A Brecht commerative issue published in the year of his death. Contains "On Shakespeare's Play Hamlet", "Practice Scenes for Actors", "On Watering the Garden" by Brecht, "The fourth wall of China", abd "Prologue to Puntila" by Brecht as well as articles on him by others. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 28438More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
AFTER WAR
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1931. Grey cloth, decorated endpapers. Front free endpaper has an ink ownership inscription, a later ink name, and mostly erased pencil marks; yellowing to page edges; else a VG tight and unworn jacketless copy. A sequel to his novel WAR, which was one of the most important WWI novels from the German point of view. The uncredited translation by Willa and Edwin Muir differs from that of the 1931 UK edition. Concerns the period in Germany just after the war: Prison Camp, Break-Up of the Old Army, The Army of Security, The Socialization, With the Security Police During the Lapp Putsch.; Octavo
Book ID: 44025More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
APPROXIMATION. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston.
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Black cloth and white boards. Narrow band of tanning to upper and lower edges of boards, light tanning to page edges, else fine. Jacket has nicks and rubbing to head of spine, light rubbing, light soiling; else VG+, flap price intact. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in 1992. An acclaimed collection of stories / vignettes about life in East Germany, written 1969-77. Dust jacket art by Gunter Grass.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 9725More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
ARMY, INDUSTRY, AND LABOR IN GERMANY 1914-1918
Edition: First Edition
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966. Brown cloth. pp xvi, 572. Illustrations, index. Ink owner name at front, small corner crease to a few leaves, near fine otherwise. Price-clipped jacket has soiling to rear panel, light spine sunning, VG otherwise.
Book ID: 43898More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
ART AS HISTORY. Episodes in the Culture and Politics of Nineteenth Century Germany.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. Second printing. Brown cloth. (xi), 227 pp. 4 color plates, numerous illustrations in text. Fine copy in lightly soiled VG jacket with sticker stain on front panel. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.; Quarto
Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 1584More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
AUCH KLEINE DINGE: Durer and the decorative tradition
Edition: First Edition
Cambridge, MA: Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1971. Squarish 12mo, plastic cerlox binding, buff card covers. 32 b&w reproductions. Small sticker stain on front cover, ink owner name at front; VG clean copy otherwise. Exhibition catalogue, Albrecht Dürer.
Book ID: 44041More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80 -
Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler (1918-1937). Translated by Charles Kessler. Introduction by Ian Buruma
Edition: First US printing
New York: Grove Press, c1999. Cloth & boards. pp 535, illustrated, notes, index. Ink name at front, else fine in fine jacket. This US edition adds the Buruma introduction to the text of the 1971 British edition. 1.12 kg parcel; Octavo 0802116639
Book ID: 54070More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Bibliography on German settlements in colonial North America, especially on the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants 1683-1933
Edition: First Edition
Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1937. Tall thick octavo. pp xxxvi, 636. Index. Vertical spine creases; damp stains to fore edges with some margin penetration; VG tight and unworn copy otherwise. Text in English and German. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 41540More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
BLITZED: drugs in Nazi Germany. Translated by Shaun Whiteside
London: Allen Lane, 2016. Red boards. pp (8), 360, index, photos in text. Reviewer's occasional ink underlining and her ink notes at rear, else fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo
Book ID: 54021More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Briefe an die Gräfin Auguste zu Stolberg, verwitwete Gräfin von Bernstorf.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 21349More details Price: USD $350.00 USD $315.00 -
CARL SPITZWEGS MALERPARADIES
Munchen: Schuler, 1974. Square quarto. Tan cloth gilt. Pp (176). Black and white reproductions, many tipped in colour plates. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has a small nick to front panel, small shallow chip to rear panel, else fine. Text in German. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required. 3770620464
Book ID: 33079More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
Controversy over German Industrialization, 1890-1902
Edition: First Edition
University of Chicago Press, 1970. Red and black cloth. pp x, 307. Index. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Dust jacket has short tears, rubbing, good. 0226037126
Book ID: 43834More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
DAME CARE. Translated from the German by Bertha Overbeck
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Harper, 1891. 12mo, original dark blue cloth decorated in silver, gilt lettered. pp (2), (315) + frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Just a mite leaned, minor rubbing to spine ends and corners; tidy ink name and two small pink spots on front free endpaper; tanning to page edges; else a near fine, bright copy. First published 1887 as FRAU SORGE, it was his first complete novel and the one which brought him fame as a novelist. A grim tale of East Prussian peasant life, it may be his best work. Sudermann dominated the German stage for nearly 20 years.
Book ID: 42078More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
DAS WAR MEIN LEBEN
Bad Würishiofen, Germany: Kindler und Schiermeyer, c. 1951. Later printing (71-90 Tausend). Red cloth gilt lettered. pp 638 + plates. Text paper toned, spine lightly sunned, damp stains to front and rear covers, else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names. The great German surgeon's autobiography. He authored five Garrison-Morton medical classics. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.; Octavo
Book ID: 25963More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
DER TÜRMER. Kriegsausgabe...
Book ID: 44512More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50
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DIARIES: Volume I, 1869-1877.
Edition: First US printing
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Edited and annotated by Martin Gregor-Dellin and Dietrich Mack. Translated and with an Introduction by Geoffrey Skelton. Brown cloth. pp 1199 + plates. Index. Ink name and date at front, else fine. Price-clipped gilt jacket has short tears, rubbing, good. 2.2 kg parcel; Thick octavo
Book ID: 54156More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Droysen and the Prussian School of History
Edition: First Edition
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. Blue cloth, endpaper map. pp viii, 247. Notes, index. Ink owner name at front, else fine in fine jacket. "The Prussian School of History first predicted and advocated, then celebrated and defended, the unification of Germany by Prussia. Experts in German historiography and the history of German liberalism have often complained about the lack of a book, in any language, that traces the origins and explains the ideas of this school of history. Here is that book.' - jacket. 0813118840
Book ID: 44522More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
EDELWEISS: a story. Translated by Ellen Frothingham
New York: Henry Holt, 1874. 12mo, original mustard illustrated cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering on spine. Spine lightly darkened with minor rubbing at ends; yellowing to page edges and endpapers; book a little leaned; VG clean, tight and unworn copy otherwise, no owner names. A volume in the Leisure Hour Series number 44.
Book ID: 41158More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany (New Studies in European History)
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 54930More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00