Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xv,375pp. Brown cloth with white lettering on spine in original dust jacket. Tail of spine bumped. Heavy foxing to outer edges of dj and page edges. Slight chipping to tail of spine on dj. Inscribed by author on free..... More
Paris: Société des Médecins Bibliophiles, 1924. Limited edition. Softcover. Octavo. X, 52pp. Original printed wrappers with decorative vignette on front cover. Frontispiece protected with tissue-guard. Title-page in red and black lettering with decorative vignette. Written by Henri Bremond (1865-1933), a French literary scholar, Catholic philosopher, and one of the theological..... More
East Aurora, NY: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 220, [6]pp. Original pictorial cloth-lined butcher paper wrappers over half cloth and paper covered boards. String bound. Red lettering and decoration on front cover. Title-page in red and black lettering, within decorative frame. Decorative initials. Fascinating work..... More
New York: Farrar, Sraus and Company, (1950). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x, 534pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Collection of sixty-seven of Edmund Wilson's literary articles from 1940-49. Includes the best of his work which was published in periodicals such as the Nation..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Quarto. XX, 350pp. Original pictorial wrappers over blue cloth, with silver lettering on spine. Fascinating work containing volumes three and four of "Noten zur Literatur, including numerous essays on works by Mann, Bloch, Hölderlin, Karl Kraus, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George..... More
New York: Aurora Verlag, (1945). First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 111pp. Original wraps. 24 scenes by Brecht capturing the fear and suffering in Hitler's Third Reich. He wrote this powerful work while in exile in Denmark. It was produced on the American stage under the title "The Private Life of the..... More
New York: Aurora Verlag, (1946). First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 115[2],pp. Stiff wraps with fold-out flaps with text. Some staining, chipping, rubbing and minor closed tears on wraps. Erstes Schauspiel: Der Kampf mit dem Engel. Zweites Schauspiel: Der Kampf mit dem Drachen. Text in German. Wraps in good-, interior in very..... More
Paris: Mercvre de France, (1919). Sixth Edition. Softcover. Sm. 8vo. Yellow printed wraps. Text in French. Wraps at spine slightly rippled, wraps slightly soiled. Overall tight copy in good condition. More
Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1988. Hardcover. Octavo. x,[1],321pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original printed dust jacket. Collection of articles from modern German literature relating to New York. Dritte Folge, Band 83 of the series "Beiträge zur Neueren Literaturgeschichte." Text in German. Minor scuffing, sunning..... More
Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2005. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 310pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers with black and red lettering on cover. Born in 1900 as son of a Jewish merchant in Nuremberg Hermann Kesten, a novelist, dramatist and editor, was one of the major literary figures of the New Objectivity movement (Neue..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4"). X, [2], 66, [2]pp (Text), [22]pp (Plates). Original illustrated dust-jacket over salmon cloth, with black lettering to spine. "What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of..... More
Dallas: The Times Herald, 1949. First edition. Softcover. 1/1050. Small quarto. Upaginated (4 leaves). Tan stapled wrappers with black lettering on front cover. Pages uncut. The publication is a essay on the cultural impact of James Joyce, which was first published in Books News of the Times Herald Dallas April..... More
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 193pp. Original cream cloth with gilt-stamped illustration and lettering on cover, gilt-stamped lettering on spine and back cover. "This book is the first study to consider the undermining effects of Joyce's iritis on the text of Ulysses. Gottfried examines Ulysses..... More
Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 257, [3]pp. Original printed soft olive cloth with blue lettering on spine and front cover. Collection of essays on literary criticism and narrative practice by comtemporary German-speaking experts. Spine slightly discolored. Text in German. Wrappers in overall good+, interior in very good..... More
East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 106pp (3) + 8 plates. Original green suede binding, now mostly sunned to brown. Gilt stamped lettering on front cover. Decorative gold/green silk endpapers. Green ribbon bookmark. Etching of Miller opposite title page. This beautifully produced edition includes two works. The first..... More
Reinbek bei Hamburg: Parus, 1948. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 161, [7]pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Exquisite almanach for art and poetry, profusely illustrated with woodcuts by Gerhard Marcks, Otto Pankok, Alfred Luyken, Max Beckmann, and illustrations by Carl Hofer, Edwin Scharff, Alfred Mahlau, Ivo Hauptmann, Alfred Kubin, Hans Ruwoldt, Willem Grimm..... More
Mexico: Letras de Mexico, 1942. First Mexican edition. Softcover. Quarto. 157, [1]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original glassine over printed wrappers. "Mañanas en Mexico" (Mornings in Mexico) is a collection of travel essays by David Herbert Richards Lawrence, first published by Martin Secker in 1927. This work displays Lawrence's gifts..... More
Berlin: S. Fischer, 1930. Elfte bis zwanzigste Auflage. Softcover. 8vo. 31, [1]pp. Original printed wraps. Work contains a speech by Thomas Mann held on October 17, 1930 at the Beethoven-Saal in Berlin. In this powerful address, Mann pointed out the dangers of National Socialism and warned the German public not..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1873. Hardcover. Small octavo. 203pp. (1) + 60 (2) pages of publishers ads at the rear. Brown buckram boards. Gilt-stamped motif surrounded by black ruling and tooling on the front cover. Gilt lettering on the spine. The book is a collection of 13 articles and..... More
New York: Aurora Verlag, (1946). First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 106,[4],pp. Stiff wraps with fold-out flaps with text. Some chipping, rubbing and minor closed tears to wraps. Ernst Waldinger (1896-1970) was a German writer and essayist. In 1938 he escaped to New York from Nazi Germany. He became a Professor of..... More
New York: Aurora Verlag, (1945). First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 47pp. Stiff wraps in original dust wrapper. Browning to wraps and to inside of dw. Some sunning, creasing and minor staining to dw. Endpapers sunned. "Die Unbesiegbaren" entstanden in den Jahren 1939-1945 in Bohmen, Frankreich und Amerika. Sie stellen einen Versuch..... More
Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1987. Hardcover. Octavo. 224pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original printed dust jacket. Collection of articles from post-WWII German literature on Amerika focusing on its negative constants. Dritte Folge, Band 77 of the series "Beiträge zur Neueren Literaturgeschichte." Text in German..... More
London: Mansell Publishing Limited, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. xxiv, 468pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. "The Shelley Myth is a term commonly used to describe a sympathetic reaction to Shelley in opposition to this reputation. In 1888, Matthew Arnold, one of its most..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii,247pp. Three-quarter cloth over paper-covered boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Minor discoloration to boards. Top edge gilt. Fore-and bottom page edges untrimmed. Frontispiece of author. A collection..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2"). [12], 203, [7]pp. Original decorative dust-jacket over half green cloth and blue & red paper covered boards, with yellow lettering to spine, and black lettering to covers. Title page inscribed and signed by the author..... More