Search Results: Authors starting with B from Varennes Books

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 dynasty in German. Seven of Its poems became the inspiration for Gustav Mahler's Das Lied Von Der Erde (which the composer worked on from 1907 to 1910). Provenance: From the Henry Church Collection. Original soft fabric cover protected by felt cover.

Used 2013 Edition, in very good condition. No shelfwear, Pages and cover, clean and intact. Prize-winning Anthropological study of Vita, a Brazilian zone of social abandonment in Porto Alegre by Anthropologist João Biehl centered on Catarina, a woman said to be mad and suffering from a progressive form of paralysis who compiles a dictionary that traces the network of family, medicine, and state that shaped her abandonment and pathology. May require additional postage.

Very good edition in very good dust jacket of Roberto Bolaño's Cowboy Graves, a collection of three novellas. No shelfwear, no markings.

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 the Spacist League who were instrumental in the Spartacist uprising in Berlin in January 1919—had only recently been abducted, tortured and killed by Freikorps soldiers. German Beige original booklet with the two-tone (red and black) print. Rust blemishes from two staples on back cover.

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.