Germany / German Writers
Lo Mas Nuevo de Heidelberg: El Camino Para Ganancias Mayores!
[Stuttgart: Heidelberg, ca. 1950.] First Spanish-Language Edition. Slim oblong quarto (21.5x32cm.); publisher's comb-bound decorative card wrappers; [18]pp.; chiefly illus., including color photographs. Light wear and toning, else Very Good or better. Date of publication based on the mark "100 Años de Máquinas de Imprimir Heidelberg, 1850-1950" printed inside upper cover..... More
Songs and Lyrics by Heinrich Heine and Other German Poets [Signed by Geicke]
Edinburgh: James Thin, 1887. First British Edition. Signed by translator with inscription to previous owner on half title. Octavo. 188 pages. Green cloth with spine label. Green endpapers. Top edge gilt. Boards worn along extremities with exposure. General spotting and rippling. Spine label worn and largely illegible. Some gatherings..... More
Circus-Bilder: 25 Heitere Original-, Feder- und Bleistift-Zeichnungen aus dem Kunstreiterleben
Munchen: Adolf Ackermann, 1880. Folio (33cm.); original cream pictorial cloth chemise stamped in black and gilt, red cloth and paper-covered flaps; [4]pp. and 25 loose plates (as issued) of pale blue card stock printed in red to which are mounted twenty-eight half-tone illustrations, title page printed within architectural border in..... More
The Royal Woman
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1930. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 320 pp. Red cloth boards stamped in gray; red topstain. No dust jacket. Boards show light wear to edges with some general scuffing; spine dulled with a chip over title lettering. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front..... More
Theobald oder die Schwärmer. Eine wahre Geschichte
Libanon, PA: Jacob Stöver, für J. Schnee, 1811. Erste amerikanische Auflage [First American Edition]. Two volumes in one; 12mo (16cm.); contemporary roan-backed boards; 272; 192pp. Ex-Lancaster Theological Seminary with their usual markings, spine leather rather crudely touched up, boards quite rubbed and worn with exposure and some old..... More
Fleur de Neige et D'Autres Contes de Grimm
Paris: L'Edition D'Art, 1929. Limited Edition of 2400 copies, this being #1147. Quarto. 118 pp. 12 mounted color plates with tissue guards; decorative head and tailpieces and initials. Original illustrated dust jacket stamped in olive and gilt over plain wrappers. Text entirely in French. Housed in recent custom made slipcase..... More
Untersuchungen zur Theorie des Unendlichen Urteils
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1929. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey card wrappers; [6],vi,167pp. General wear from handling, later (1990) ownership signature to half title, else Very Good and sound. At head of title: "Veröffentlichungen der Hermann Cohen-Stiftung bei der Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums." More
Self-Direction and Political Legitimacy: Rousseau and Herder
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; vii,[3],330pp. Minor shelf wear and dust-soil, corners tapped, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Comparative study of the philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his German contemporary Johann Gottfried Herder. More
Crete 1941: German Parachutes in Crete, 20 May 1941 - June 1941 [Cover title: Fallschirmjäger in Crete]
Paris: Histoire & Collections, 2002. First English-Language Edition. Quarto; publisher's glossy photo-illustrated paper-covered boards; 160pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. Corners gently bumped, else Fine. More
Jim Dine: Walldrawing
Ludwigsburg: Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, 1994. First Edition. From the library of Brenda Richardson. Octavo (25.5x20x1cm); 63pp, including biography and chronology. Twelve full-page color photographs, with 18 additional B&W images, most full-page. All text in parallel English, French, and German versions. Photographic boards; textblock of ivory wove paper. This is..... More
Voyage du Capitaine Phipps, dans La Mer Glaciale du Nord, Suivi du Voyage de Pyrard aux Iles Maldives, Faisant partie separee de la Bibliotheque geographique de la jeunesse, Par Campe
Lyon: Chez J.F. Rolland, Libraire. 24mo (5.25" x 3.5"); ii, 220pp. Illustrated frontis. Contemporary leather with red title card to spine and gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Concave warp to boards, with rubbing along edges and corners. Bottom inch of spine backing separated but present..... More
Grundriss der Logik und Metaphysik. Für Vorlesungen
Halle: Johann Friedrich Lippert, 1843. Zweite, verbesserte Auflage ("Second, Improved Edition"). Octavo; contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, manuscript spine label; xiv,178pp. Ex-Philip Schiff Library of Lancaster Theological Seminary with their rather extensive markings, additional attractive contemporary (ca. 1840s) library bookplate to front pastedown, boards rather scuffed with exposure at corners, textblock..... More
Éléments du Droit Civil Romain, selon l'ordre des institutes de Justinien, arrangés suivant une méthode plus utile aux étudiants
Paris: F. Patris, 1805. First Thus. Four volumes; 12mo (17cm.); contemporary full mottled sheep, gilt spines with red gilt onlays. Leather rather scuffed with significant worm-holing (not affecting text); neat and legible ownership annotations to rear flyleaf of Vol. I; though externally less than ideal, internally quite clean and sound;..... More
Schatzkastchen: enthaltend biblische Betrachtungen mit erbaulichen Liedern auf alle Tage im Jahre zur Beforderung hauslicher Andacht und Gottseligkeit
Leipzig: Karl Tauchnitz, 1830. Octavo. 657 pages + 4 pages sheet music. Contemporary mottled calf with brown leather spine label lettered in gilt. Two brass clasps. Marbled endpapers and edges. Text in blackletter German. Some wear and flaking to edges and spine ends and cracked at top of front..... More
Love in the Wars: A version of Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist [Signed by Banville]
Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland: Gallery Books, 2005. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 78pp. Just About Fine condition. Signed by the author on title page. One of a series of three adaptations penned by Irish author John Banville based on the tragedies of..... More
Two Discourses: The first, of preaching Christ; The second, of particular and experimental preaching [WITH] A Letter to a Friend Concerning the most useful way of preaching
Boston: J. Draper, for J. Edwards and H. Foster, 1740. Fourth Edition (First American). Small octavo (16.5cm.); recent stiff blue card wrappers; xii,[13]-86pp. (A-L4). Title page provided in facsimile, first five leaves and final leaf (blank) with neat archival repair including to coin-size loss to title page fore-edge not quite..... More
My Life in Germany Before and After 1933: A Report
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1994]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in green photo-illustrated dust jacket; xx,175pp.; eleven (11) leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Minor shelf wear, very brief soil to rear board, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good to Near..... More
Caroline. Briefe an ihre Geschwister, ihre Tochter Auguste, die Familie Gotter...
Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirse, 1871. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo; 20th-century red library cloth, gilt-lettered spines; xiii,[1],385; iv,384pp.; engraved portrait frontispieces. German text throughout. Ex-Wilson College Library with their usual markings, cloth rather unevenly toned along extremities and spines, textblock uniformly brittled and toned due to inferior paper quality..... More
Geschichte der Atomistik vom Mittelalter bis Newton [Bd. I: Die Erneuerung der Korpuskulartherorie; Bd. II: Hohepunkt und Verfall der Korpuskulartheorie des Siebzehnten Jahrhunderts]
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1963. Facsimile Reprint of the First (1890) Edition. Two volumes; octavos; publisher's pale grey cloth, red and gilt spine titling, grey topstains; xii,518; viii,609pp. Light dust-soil to bindings, textblocks a shade toned at extremities, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpapers, else a Very Good set overall..... More
Leland Rice: Illusions and Allusions, Photographs of the Berlin Wall [Signed]
San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1987. First Edition. Signed on half-title: "Leland Rice 10-6-87." Quarto (30.5x30.5x0.5cm); unpaginated [36pp], including chronology and bibliography. Fourteen full-page color plates. Saddle-stapled pictorial glossy card covers over coated paper textblock. Signs of normal nano-creases at staples, minor corner wear; otherwise in carefully..... More
Die Religionskritik Spinozas und zugehorige Schriften [Gesammelte Schriften Band 1]
Stuttgart: Verlag J.B. Metzler, [1996]. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xiv,434pp.; photographic frontispiece. A hint of dust-soil and shelf wear, remainder mark to bottom textblock edge, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. More
Philosophie und Gesetz -- Fruhe Schriften [Gesammelte Schriften Band 2]
Stuttgart: Verlag J.B. Metzler, [1997]. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxxiv,635pp. Light shelf wear, corners a bit bumped, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. More
The Turn in the Communist International and the German Situation
New York: Communist League of America (Opposition), 1930. Side-stapled pamphlet; 31pp. Printed paper wraps. Covers cleanly detached but present, showing some general toning and smudging to surface, and a prior ownership inscription of a Carla Hudson in pencil at bottom front. Corners of textblock a bit bumped at bottom corners..... More
Autograph Grand Tour Diary with TransAtlantic Steamship Ephemera
Unpublished autograph travel diary in a small notebook. May-June 1901. One commercially-produced octavo notebook (19cm x 12cm) of 48 unlined pages, sewn gatherings, all pageblock edges gilt. Covered for preservation in black plasticized faux leather, with a stylized vintage label—Tagebuch [Journal]—painted in silver, by an amateur hand, on the front..... More