Leipzig: 1924. Hardcover. Thin Quarto. Grey paper covered boards with black and dark brown title to front board. Foxing and rubbing to boards with browning to spine. Wear and chipping to edges to edges of boards. Toning to some interior pages and spots of foxing throughout. Includes many illustrations (some photographic and some facsimilies), many as tipped-in plates. Features fine examples of bindings, illustrations, and typography. In German. 105 pages. BOB/020323. Very Good. More

Hamburg: Gesellschaft der Bücherfreunde / Poeschel & Trepte, 1931. Hardcover. The second number of this fine German periodical on typography, illustration, and private press work. This issue is notable for articles on the Cranach Press and English private presses with a number of tipped-in original leaves including two from the Nonesuch Press; the Cranach Press's 'Hamlet' and 'Das Hohe Lied' each with an Eric Gill illustration (one especially fine); and Shakespeare Head's 'Froissart.' There is also a 2 page type specimen from The Ashendene Press and a 20 page article on recent German typefaces. Most text is in German. Bound in the original black cloth with black and white paper title labels to spine. Slight bow to boards. Slight bump to top page corners. Clean and bright. Bookplate to front pastedown of William P. Wreden. Includes a typed list of the contents from a previous owner. Size: 8.75 x 11 inches. 301 pages plus about 20 pages of ads. BOB/020923. Very Good. More

Berlin: Kurt Wolff / Im Schocken Verlag, 1932 / 1936. Hardcover. First volume has 18 full page plates and 8 illustations in text. In black cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front cover. Light rubbing to boards. Clean, bright interior. In white dust jacket with red spine panel and white title to spine. In original cardboard slipcase with title to spine panel. Minor wear to edges of case. 307 pages. Second volume is also bound in black cloth boards with gilt title to spine, but it's dust jacket is off-white with black title to spine and front panel. The second volume is not in a slipcase. 287 pages plus 15 plates. In German. GER709281 This set may require an extra shipping fee. Near Fine / Fine. More

Wien: R. Lowit Verlag, 1935. Hardcover. A book of poems in German translation from Israel's national poet Chajim Nachman Bialik (1873 - 1934). Third edition. Very good in blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front cover. Minor fading to edges of boards and spine. Minor browning to endpapers, else clean and bright. Photographic frontispiece. In light grey dust jacket with blue title to spine and front panels. Minor chipping and wear to edges of jacket. Minor browning to spine and edge of jacket. 193 pages. In German. GER909281. Very Good / Very Good. More

Lahr: J.H. Gieger, 1868. Hardcover. (Illustrated Village Newpaper. Volume 6) Includes 52 issues bound together in one volume. Good in half leather with marbled paper covered boards. Boards are rubbed, front cover is detached, and leather spine panel is missing. Previous owner inscription to front endpage dated 22/3/69. First two pages are present but detached and have a few chips along the edges. Browning to margins of pages. Includes numerous illustrations. Some of the original yellow paper wrappers bound into rear. 401 pages. A good reading copy. German. GER/4223. Good. More

Munich: Bremer Presse, 1926-1929. Hardcover. 365 copies. This is a magnificent production from the famed Bremer Presse of Germany - probably their masterpiece. They published books from 1911 to 1939, interrupted only by World War I. It was founded by Willy Wiegand, and like England's Doves Press, rejected ornament except for splendid initials draw by Anna Simons and relied upon carefully chosen types and painstaking presswork to produce its limited edition hand printed books. The colophon states that this edition was printed to commemorate the 400 year anniversary of the publication of Martin Luther's German bible. The text was based on the editions published in 1545 and 1546. The Bible (German: Lutherbibel) was the first German language Bible translation from Latin sources. The New Testament was first published in September 1522, and the complete Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments with Apocrypha, in 1534. Luther continued to make improvements to the text until 1545. The five volumes are: Die Bucher Mose; Teil des Alten Testaments; Teil des Alten Testaments; Die Propheten; Das Neue Testament. Each volume is numbered differently. They are bound uniformly in blue paper boards with linen spines with the title written in calligraphy. The volumes are housed in gray paper board slipcases. In near fine condition in very good slipcases. Measures 10 x 14 inches. Unpaginated [each volume about 250-300 pages] PRI/011623. Near Fine. More

Berlin: 1927. Paperback. Number 41 of 100 copies. SCARCE. Very good in oblong yellow patterned paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Light foxing to front cover. Unbound as issued. Clean interior. 22 pages. In German. GER309251. Very Good. More

Basel: Buchdruckerei der National Zeitung AG, 1936. Paperback. SCARCE. Very good in yellow wraps, a bit faded around the edges with black title to front cover. Chipping to spine, pen mark to rear cover, and small chip to front cover. This copy belonged to Ottokar Weiss, an associate of James Joyce - with Weiss's ownership inscription dated 1941. Includes charts. 97 pages. German. GER1/01191. Very Good. More

Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns. Hardcover. Very good- in brownpaper covered boards with illustration to front board. This book has been expertly rebacked with blue cloth. The original spine has been pasted down on top of the modern material. Rubbing to boards and soiling to rear board. Wear to spine ends and corners. Spine rolled. Minor smudging and browning to margins of several pages. Pen markings to a few pages. Text is overall clean and bright with chromolithographic plates by Hoffmann. Text in German fraktur. 176 pages. GER112071. Very Good -. More

Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1892. Hardcover. Very good in dark green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Minor wear to edges of boards and minor rubbing to front cover. Ex-library with stamp from Budapest to title page and writting in pen beneath stamp. Pencil underlining to a few passages in table of contents, but clean otherwise. 327 pages. GER/0422216. Very Good. More

Berlin: Julius Bard Verlag, 1902. Hardcover. Cream paper covered spine with grey and gilt decorative paper covered boards. Gilt title to spine and front board. Wear and chipping to paper along edges, hinges, and corners of boars. Browning and slight roll to spine. Penned ownership inscription dated 1907 to front free endpaper. Clean interior overall. Attractively printed in red and black on laid paper. Devil motif to page numbers. 210 pages. GER/032323. Very Good. More

Karl Flothmann, 1953. Paperback. May 1953 (Number 80) .Very good in off-white side stapled paper wrappers. About National Socialism. Text is bright. Crease along center where it had been folded. 16 pages. German. in wraps. GER3/2042. Very Good. More