Leipzig: Georg Joachim Göschen, 1787. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 128pp. Modern decorative paper-covered boards wit gilt ruling and lettering on black label of spine. The first draft of this one act comedy was written in 1768/69, the second draft in the summer of 1769. It premiered in 1777 with Goethe..... More
Leipzig: Josef Singer, ND. M. Wehlau. Hardcover. 12mo. 63,[2],pp. Gray leather with gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Minor staining to boards. Ribbon marker. Illustrated endpapers. Tearing to, and small piece of top edge of free rear endpaper missing. Illustrated with eight original color lithographs by M. Wehlau. Wonderful..... More
Jena: Eugen Diederichs, (1908-1909). Limited edition. Jubiläumsausgabe. Hardcover. 1/1000. 4to. 405,[1],pp. Full leather with blind-tooled decorations on front-and back board as well as spine. Gold-embossed title on cover. Raised bands. Clasps missing, but remnants of leather strips on edge of back board; two gold studs on fore edge of front..... More
Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1912. Hardcover. Quarto. 405 (1)pp. Original hand bound full vellum with gilt lettering on cover and spine with copper clasps with vellum ribbons, housed in cream paper-covered slipcase with gilt lettering on green label on spine. Gilt top edge. Title page and block designed with black ruling..... More
Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1853. Vollständige, neugeordnete Ausgabe. Hardcover. 40 volumes. 16mo. Brown cloth with gilt decorated spine. Minor scuffing and rubbing to boards. Decorated page edges. Sporadic foxing throughout not affecting text. A beautiful set of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's (1749-1832) complete works. Text in German, gothic script. Tight..... More
Stuttgart/ Tübingen: J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1828-1833. Hardcover. Sextodecimo (5 1 /2 x 3 1/2"). Original green half leather over marbled paper boards with gilt lettering, ruling and tooling on spines. Speckled edges. So-called pocket book edition. Contains all works of the renowned German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)..... More
München: Müller, Propyläen, 1909-1932. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Complete. Original black and dark blue cloth with gilt coat of arms and ruling on cover, gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Blue endpapers. The rare supplement of "Bildnisse Goethes" in three quarter black leather with gilt lettering and ruling on spine..... More
München: Friedr. Bruckmann's Verlag, ND (ca 1882). Dritte Auflage (Third edition). Hardcover. Folio (12 1/8 x 9"). [4], 139, [1]pp. Original gilt and black stamped burgundy cloth. with gold lettering to front cover, and red lettering to spine. All paper edges gilt. Decorative endpapers, half-title and title page. Decorative head-..... More
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Leipzig: Veb E. A. Seemann, (1957). Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/1000. Original paper-covered boards with color lithograph by Horlbeck. Signed by Horlbeck and Irmgard H. Kappler on limitation page. This poem in elegiac metre was written by Goethe in 1796. In it, the Greek youth Alexis, just before his departure by..... More
New York: Mehr Likht, 1910. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 190 pp. Original paper wrappers. Book is very rare, as OCLC only lists three libraries world wide that own this work. Frontis piece portraying a b/w steel engraving portrait of Goethe mounted on front endpaper. Lovely decorative title page. This is..... More