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Literature at War, 1914-1940: Representing the "Time of Greatness" in Germany
Edition: First printing
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. Orange boards, pp 280; illustrated, index. Ink name at front, else fine. Jacket spine lightly sunned, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47828More details Price: USD $14.95 -
MEMORIES OF THE FATHERLAND
Edition: First Edition
London: Methuen, 1916. Tall octavo, blue cloth. pp viii, 300 + 31 pp catalogue + frontispiece and 11 other plates. Index. Foxing, tanning, small ink names to endpapers; text paper a bit toned, page edges tanned; nicks to spine ends; else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy. English governess Anne Topham spent seven years (1902-1909) in Germany as the tutor for Kaiser Wilhelm II's only daughter, Victoria Louise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44034More details Price: USD $25.00 -
MY MISSION TO LONDON 1912-1914. With a Preface by Professor Gilbert Murray
New York: Doran, no date (1918). pp (xvi), (45), stapled in white card covers. Covers and first and last pages foxed; chips and tears to two leaves from careless opening (no text affected); small ink owner name on front cover and another on first (blank) page; good. Lichnowsky was ambassador to Britain 1912-14 and was the only German diplomat to object to Germany's policies which lead to the outbreak of war.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48333More details Price: USD $12.95 -
NOTES AND REFLECTIONS DURING A RAMBLE IN GERMANY. By the Author of 'Recollections of the Peninsula', 'Sketches in India', Scenes & Impressions in Egypt and Italy', and 'Story of a Life.' Second Edition
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. Second printing (first was in 1826). Original quarter morocco and brown paper-covered boards, cream endpapers. pp iv, 400, page edges untrimmed. Paper spine label perished, with just a small corner remaining; joints partially cracked top and bottom; boards rubbed, corners rounded; occasional foxing in text, light tide margins to fore margins of some leaves; VG copy otherwise, no owner names. Not issued with illustrations. Calais, Boulogne, Dieppe, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Germany, Switzerland, Austria Prague, Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin. A good account, with close social observation, by a junior British Army officer
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29224More details Price: USD $150.00 -
OBSTACLES. Translated from the German by Ursule Molinaro
Edition: First US printing
New York: Pantheon, 1965. Cloth and boards. Page edges yellowed, ink owner name on title page, VG+ otherwise. White dust jacket is darkened, chipped at spine ends, damp stained, soiled; only fair.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 53318More details Price: USD $14.95 -
OEDIPUS AT STALINGRAD. Translated by H.F. Broch de Rothermann and the author
Edition: First US printing
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. Cloth and boards. First few leaves very lightly rippled with a very small soft corner crease, VG+ otherwise, in fine jacket. A satire on Germany just before the war, written in the 1950s.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52882More details Price: USD $14.95 -
PHILIP EULENBURG: the kaiser's friend. Translated from the German by Ethel Colburn Mayne (2 volumes)
Edition: First US issue
New York: Knopf, 1930. Two volumes, octavo, black cloth. pp xxxii, 388; (x), 393, [3} + sepia portraits. Index. Ink owner name at fronts; spine gilt a mite dulled, else a VG clean and unworn jacketless pair. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43850More details Price: USD $75.00 -
PIRANESI'S DREAM: a novel. Translated from the German by Leslie Willson
Edition: First US printing
New York: Braziller, 2000. Pale green boards. Two small light soil spots to top page edges, else fine in fine jacket. Inscribed but not signed on the title page by the author to a noted Canadian writer "This is the copy for my wonderful fellow writer___ from is Huckleberry Gothic." I have compared the hand to a known author inscription.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52678More details Price: USD $18.95 -
Politics and Culture in Wilhelmine Germany: The Case of Industrial Architecture
Edition: First Edition
Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1995. Glossy pictorial boards without jacket, as issued. pp (xiv), 318, [4]. Bibliography, index. Ink owner name at front, small tear to top of rear joint, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43844More details Price: USD $25.00 -
PRINCE LICHNOWSKY AND THE GREAT WAR
Edition: First Edition
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1977. Grey cloth. pp xii, 281 + plates. Note, bibliography, index. Ink owner name at front, small bump to lower outer corner of front cover, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has some rubbing and fading, good. Linchowsky was the German Ambassador to London until WWI broke out. He had become unpopular in Berlin because he urged the government not to invade Serbia. His memoirs were used to show that Germany was mainly responsible for the war.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44087More details Price: USD $15.00 -
PRUSSIAN MEMORIES 1864-1914
New York: Putnam's, c.1915. Third printing. Black cloth. pp (198), (6, ads). Spine gilt dulled, faint; damp spot to upper outer corner of front cover; pink damp spot to upper outer corner of early leaves; ink owner name at front; pencil name in top margin of title page of Evan Poultney; a good, tight and unworn copy otherwise. Bigelow, an American journalist, was a lifelong friend of Kaiser Wilhelm II (they were schoolmates) and an early admirer of Hitler and Mussolini (admiration rescinded later).
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47957More details Price: USD $18.95 -
RUSSIAN AND GERMANY AT BREST-LITOVSK. A Documentary History of the Peace Negotiations
Edition: First edition.
New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1919. Terra cotta cloth. pp 192. Spine a little sunned; dam stains with colour loss to margins of covers; text paper lightly toned; small bookplate; else a good, clean, tight and unworn copy of a scarce book. "With the following documentary account of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Negotiations, hitherto an unwritten chapter in the history of the Russian Revolution, the Department of Labor Research begins the publication of a series of monogrpahs on economic and political questions which it hoped will prove valuable contributions to the literature of the Socialist and Labor movements." - from the introductory note by Alexander Trachtenberg.
Condition: Book: Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 26062More details Price: USD $35.00 -
SITTENGESCHICHTE DES ERSTEN WELTKRIEGS
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48209More details Price: USD $65.00 -
SOME POEMS OF FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN. Translated by Frederic Prokosch
Edition: First printing
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1943. Octavo, pale grey boards. pp [2], (36). Small abrasion on front cover, soft crease to two leaves, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has some tanning; spine has quite minor rubbing and a tiny chip at foot; nicks to rear panel; VG otherwise. Includes a biographical note by Prokosch. German and English text on facing pages. Poets of the Year Series III. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47020More details Price: USD $9.95 -
SONNETS TO ORPHEUS. Translated by M.D. Herter Norton
Edition: First of this edition
New York: Norton, 1942. Blue cloth. Spine faded, else a VG clean & unworn jacketless copy, no owner names. One of the grat poetry books of the 20th century. Text in German with facing English translation.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46784More details Price: USD $19.95 -
STRESEMANN AND THE REARMAMENT OF GERMANY
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1969. 3rd printing. Green cloth. pp (12), 132 + frontispiece portrait. Index. Ink owner name at front, else a fine, jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44502More details Price: USD $15.00 -
STUDIES IN GERMAN COLONIAL HISTORY
Edition: First US issue
Chicago: Quadrangle, 1962. Black cloth. pp 150; index. Bit of foxing to endpapers, page edges, and text early and late; ink owner name; else fine. Dust jacket has creases to spine ends, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48469More details Price: USD $24.95 -
TEN YEARS AT THE COURT OF ST. JAMES' 1895-1905. Translated and edited by Prof. George Young
Edition: First edition in English
London: Butterworth, 1921. Rose cloth. pp 255 + frontispiece portrait. Index. Spine sunned; damp stain to front cover; outer corners of corners bruised; remains of label inside front cover; some foxing to early leaves; else a good, clean & sound copy, tight in the binding. Uncommon book.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43876More details Price: USD $30.00 -
THE ANVIL.Translated by Huntley Paterson
Edition: First US edition
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Black cloth. Yellowing to page edges and endpapers; shelf wear to lower edges of covers; and to outer corners; VG clean and tight jacketless copy otherwise, no owner names. Once a German Lutheran pastor, Frenssen abandoned Christianity and became a Nazi supporter.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41676More details Price: USD $30.00 -
The Berlin Secession: Modernism and Its Enemies in Imperial Germany
Edition: First printing
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. Tan cloth; pp 269 + 2 colour plates; b&w illustrations in text, index. Ink owner name, small corner crease to two leaves, else fine in VG jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48028More details Price: USD $19.95