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One of 500 copies in very good+ condition of First Edition on Japanese laid paper of poetry collection by Stefan George, one of Germany's most important poets. Inspired by the French symbolist poet Mallarmé's vision of art for arts sake, George devoted himself to the production of highly refined, often hermetic, poetry for an elite audience. Gilt embossed purple linen… Read more

Very good 1915 first edition of Thomas Mann's Essay in German on Frederick the Great of Prussia. Written at the outbreak of World War I between September and December 1914, the Essay is an indirect expression of scepticism about German war politics at the time. Based on notes for a novel he planned to write about Frederick the Great nearly… Read more

Rare two vol. set of first German Trade Hardcover Edition of Oswald Spengler's DER UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDES. Umrisse Einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte. München [Munich]: Oskar Beck, 1922, 1923. In two octavo Volumes: pp 559, 637. [THE DECLINE OF THE WEST]. A near fine example in cream coloured paper covered boards printed with black titles and graphics. Volume II is a… Read more

Rare Very good+ copy of 1905 Leipzig Edition of Holderlin's poetry in half-leather binding, 8vo. (approx. 19 x 12 cm), with gold-embossed title on colored boards, top edge gilt, 316 pages. Edited by Paul Ernst with Bruckkmann mezzotint of frontispiece "Zu Hyperions Schicksalslied" by Max Klinger:

Knopf, New York, 1944. hardcover. First American Edition of last volume of Mann's celebrated tetralogy. Condition: Very Good. 422 pp. 5 7/8 x 8 3/4. Black cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on front and spine. No dust jacketj. No shelf wear. Pages intact. No markings or interior damage.

3 Volumes in a gilt-designed, full red Morocco in original cardboard slipcase. 1st volume frontispiece Tischbein portrait of Goethe; 2nd volume frontispiece Kolbe portrait of Goethe; 3rd volume frontispiece bust of Goethe by Muse Kauffmann. In fine condition, bindings tight and square.

First edition. Volume one. Silver-stamped gray papercovered boards and spine. Text in German. Poems in translation by: Rossetti, Swinburne, Dowson, Jacobsen, Kloos, Verwey, Verhaeren. Some sunning to edges.

Very good copy of original 1909 edition of Austrian writer Peter Altenberg's Prose short sketches which became known as Viennese 'Kaffeehausliterat'. Texts describe social life in turn-of-the-century Vienna. No wear to original fabric cover. Some soiling to bottom corner of spine. Otherwise no edge wear or rubbing. Inside intasct and clean.

Very Good Copy of second German edition of Heinrich Heine's satirical novella with original boards and a cover drawing by Jules Pascin, important Bulgarian-born Expressionist painter with more than 20 illustrations by Pascin. In glassine cover with some soiling on cover. Bright and clean inside. Born Julius Mordechai Pincas, Jules PASCIN (1885-1930), was one of the most important artists of… Read more

Good copy of uncut First Edition of ADELINA or Farewell to one's Nineteenth Year (ODER DER ABSCHIED VOM NEUNZEHTEN 8 ° in original black brochure.tanned back. Some discoloration and chipping to to cover. Interior intact. Novella was authored by Oskar Kokoschka's younger brother. With illustration by Oskar Kokoschka. Vol. 76/77 is part of the Series entitled The Last Day published… Read more

Good copy of two of Kokoschka's early dramatic works. Considered important precursors of the Expressionist aesthetic; Kokoschka called his plays 'Piloten des Expressionismus' ('pilots of Expressionism'). His early literary work can be regarded as a link between Viennese Modernism and Expressionism. Some brittleness and chipping to edges of front cover. Interior intact. Vol. 41 in the Series entitled The… Read more

Clean copy of first German Edition of Der Opfergang (Way of Sacrifice), an acclaimed pacifist work by German Expressionist writer and son of a General who served near Verdun. Cloth boards. Some scuffing to cloth binding.

Very good copy of 1922 First German Edition of Brecht's Trommeln in der Nacht (Drums in the Night ), a play written in the Expressionist style of Ernst Toller and Georg Kaiser between 1919 and 1920. It received its first theatrical production in 1922. According to Leon Feuchwanger, the play was originally entitled Spartakus. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg of… Read more

Very Good copy of 1944 Swiss Edition of Novella in Three Parts originally published to great acclaim by the Austrian novelist Robert Musil in 1924. Drei Frauen consists of three long stories, "Grigia," "The Portuguese Lady," and "Tonka." The work was published a few years prior to Robert Musil's twentieth-century masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. Beloved by writers Thomas Mann… Read more

Very good clean copy of Fifth German language edition of Collection of Bertolt Brecht's Poetry. 321 pages.in original dust jacket.with one tear on back. Some soiling on dust jacket.

Very rare copy in fine condition of original 1907 German Edition of poet, novelist and essayist Hans Bethge's The Chinese Flute (Die Chinesischen Flote). This uncut first edition of the work numbered 41 on papier de chine (chinapapier) was one of only 100 copies published in Leipzig by InseIverlag. The work conveys the essence of Chinese poetry of the Tang… Read more

Pictorial Covered Boards. Condition: Fine. Festival in German rhymes is a festival by Gerhart Hauptmann which premiered on May 31, 1913 to commemorate the centenary of Breslau and the Napoleonic Wars of Liberation. The play was discontinued on 18 June 1913 after eleven performances at the request of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1882-1951) who urged the Breslau Magistrate to… Read more

Georg Bondi, Berlin, 1905. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Volume two only. No fading to silver-stamped titles on gray paper-covered boards and spine. German translations of Works of Verlaine, Mallarmé,Rimbaud, de Regnier, d'Annunzio, Rolicz-Lieder.

One of four hundred copies, in original dark green boards under Stefan George's historic imprint. Binding tight. No soiling to boards, minor bumping to corners, no wear to spine. Interior immaculate.

1903 Edition of Collected Poems of German-Jewish Poet and Dramatist (1869 – 1948) who was a close collaborator of Sefan George. He also translated from French, English, Italian, Hebrew, Latin and Middle High German into German and was a member of the Munich Cosmic Circle. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1933, to Italty in 1934 and then to New Zealand… Read more