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London: Spring Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Reprint Edition. A Reprint edition in Very Good condition with edge and agewear to the boards and page edges in a lightly scuffed alike dust-jacket with chipping and other edgewear. A gift inscription on the front flyleaf; Nearly 300 b/w illustrations and frontispiece in full colour, comprehensive biblio and index of makers' marks, invaluable for collectors & students; 242 pages .

Berlin: Dr. A. Börsch & Dr. P. Simon. Near Fine. 1887. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A very handsome true first edition copy in Near Fine condition, title page little loose, small bumps to the marbled boards and spine ends, otherwise in Fine condition, nice contemporary bookplate and later name inscription on front board. Overall this scarce copy presents a most outstanding collectible of this fundamental work in science; The fundamental work of Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) , ranked with Archimedes and Newton as the greatest of Mathematicians, in defining the method of least squares, the procedure used to this day to minimize the impact of measurement error. The first compository of Gauss' individual documentation (originally published in 1809) into a separate, comprehensive volume on the subject in the original German language, translated from Latin; 8vo; 208 pages .

Hamburg: Carl Ernst Bohn. Good+. 1781. A good+ edition with rubbing, scuffing and other age and shelfwear to the boards, some inking to the front flyleaf, and tanning and foxing throughout; Durchgesehen, und mit einigen Anmerkungen begleitet Joh. Alb. Hinr. Reimarus der Arzeneygelahrtheit Doctor; 2 lb .

Berlin, Germany: Colloquium Verlag Berlin. Very Good. [1960]. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A sturdy first edition/first printing in Very Good condition with slightly bumped lower front cover, nominally chipped head and tail of spine, lightly rubbed front and back covers without dust-jacket. German text; German biography of Adolf Hitler; B & W Photographs; 12mo; 159 pages .

Frankfurt And Leipzig. Very Good. 1785. Second Edition. The second Edition (following the 1784 first edition) in very good condition with rubbing to the boards, bumped corners and spine separation. There is tearing to the pages ; The true story of Aloysia von Blumenau, a woman who became a Jesuit nun in the eighteenth century, and the extraordinary challenges she faced in her quest to follow her religious calling.; 136 pages; 1 lb .

Boston: D. C. Heath and Co. , Publishers. Very Good+. 1909. Edition in very good + condition with rubbing to the boards and bumped corners. There is light soiling to the pages and stamps from previous owners on the front flyleaf and bottom page edge next to spine. ; M. KnoxThis anthology of German literature is a great way to increase your understanding of the language and the literature. The selections are well-made and will introduce you to some of Germany's most famous authors.; 399 pages .

Königsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius. Very Good-. 1796. A well aged and shelfworn specimen in very good- condition with some soiling stains to the boards; -WernigerodeFriedrich Leopold Graf Zu Stolberg-Wernigerode's Auserlesene Gespräche Des Platon is a collection of Platonic dialogues, translated from the original Greek. The book provides a thorough and systematic introduction to the philosophical ideas of Plato, as well as a commentary on the dialogues themselves.; 365 pages; 1 lb .

Berlin. Very Good-. 1796. An edition in very good- condition with bumped corners, shelfwear to the boards, inking on the front pastedown and flyleaf, foxing throughout; Brittische Liebschaften, or Kurzweilige Doch Wahrhafte Historie von den Liebeshandeln Englischer Könige, Herzöge, Grafen, Ritter und Kaufleute, is a book about romantic relationships between English kings, princes, knights, and merchants. In the sixth part, the author discusses the love affairs of the Seven Years' War.; Vol. 6; 74 pages; 1 lb .

Berlin. Very Good-. 1783. An edition in very good- condition that has foxing to the edgeworn pages and some scuffing, rubbing and soiling to the boards; The book, Brittische Liebschaften or Kurzweilige Doch Wahrhafte Historie von den Liebeshandeln English kings, princes, knights and merchants by Friedrich Schulz, tells the story of love affairs between English kings, princes, knights and merchants.; Vol. 2; 248 pages; 1 lb .

Berlin. Very Good. 1787. A very good edition, volume 4, that has some rubbing around the edges of the boards and some light foxing throughout; The fourth part of Friedrich Schulz’s "Brittische Liebschaften, Oder Kurzweilige Doch Wahrhafte Historie Von Den Liebeshandeln Englischer Könige, Herzöge, Grafen, Ritter Und Kaufleute" tells the story of English courtly love.; Vol. 4; 280 pages; 1 lb .

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0151257434 . A handsome first US edition/first printing in about Fine condition in alike dustjacket; German art history professor Alexander Reschke and Polish art restorer Alexandra Piatkowska meet on the way to the cemetery in Gdansk Poland and quickly find they have much in common. They found a society to allow people expatriated after World War II to be buried in their native land. Their good intentions are overwhelmingly successful and they find themselves building resorts and gold courses on the would-be burial ground ; Etching; 8vo ; [viii], 248 pages .

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0151257434 . A handsome first US edition/first printing in fine condition in alike dustjacket. Signed by author and Nobel Laureate Günter Grass directly on the title page; German art history professor Alexander Reschke and Polish art restorer Alexandra Piatkowska meet on the way to the cemetery in Gdansk Poland and quickly find they have much in common. They found a society to allow people expatriated after World War II to be buried in their native land. Their good intentions are overwhelmingly successful and they find themselves building resorts and gold courses on the would-be burial ground ; Etching; 8vo ; [viii], 248 pages; Signed by Author .

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press. As New. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special first edition limited to 1275 copies preceding the trade edition, SIGNED by the award-winning author Norman Mailer. A wonderful copy in As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap; Norman Mailer, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Armies of the Night, returns to fiction with his character study of one of modern history's most undefinable figures---Adolph Hitler. Using the narrative voice of a young SS operative, Mailer gives us detailed background into Hilter's family life and circumstances which shaped the leader for better or worse Contains all of the classic Easton Press trimmings: premium leather, silk moiré end leaves, distinctive cover design, raised bands, accented in real 22KT gold, satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, long-lasting, high quality acid-neutral paper, sewn pages for strength and durability; 8vo; Signed by Author .

New York: Holiday House. As New in As New dust jacket. 2006. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0823418316 . A wonderful first edition/second printing in unread As New condition in alike dust jacket, this one beautifully SIGNED by "the cat from Terezin" Ela Weisberger on the title page; Author Susan Goldman Rubin wrote this biography about Ela Weissberger entirely from one-on-one interviews or phone conversations. With photographs and sketches, Ela's story unfolds as she relates her miraculous life as a survivor of the Nazi camp for children in Terezin where she was cast as the cat in the opera Brundibar; 4to; Signed by One Author .

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in a Very Good-, clipped and edgeworn dust-jacket; This book tells the story of two cousins, Adalard and Wala, who were born in the 8th century and lived through the tumultuous years of the Carolingian dynasty. Cabaniss provides a rich account of their lives, including their struggles to hold on to their power and their efforts to build a lasting legacy.; 8vo; 226 pages; FSA .

Hermannstadt: Petrus Barth. Very Good-. 1797. A very good- edition with rubbing and aging to the black boards, the spine is fraying particularly around the upper edges, P. O notations in front, foxing throughout, and a minor spot where the boards are separating from the spine; 751 pages; 2 lb .

Orlando: Harcourt, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0151007640 . A most handsome first printing of the first US edition in fine condition in alike dust jacket. Signed by author and Nobel Laureate Günter Grass; Born to an unwed mother on a lifeboat of the Wilhelm Gustloff on the night of the attack by a Soviet submarine in January 1945, Paul Pokriefke, a middle-aged journalist, is trying to piece together the tragic events. "Scuttling backward to move forward", Crabwalk is Nobel Laureate Grass' examination of the ways different generations of Germans now view their past. Translated from the original German by Krishna Winston; 8vo ; [2], [vi], 234 pages; Signed on a tipped in page following the fly-leaf ; Signed by Author .

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. An attractive Farrar, Straus & Giroux edition in its first printing, Fine condition with only minute traces of foxing in Fine dust-jacket. The collection of poems, writting during the same period as Steppenwolf, was first published in 1928 in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Hesse's uneasiness about the degree of self-exposure in these quite untypical poems is evident in that the majority (and many of the best) were never reprinted during his lifetime; Nobel Laureate Hesse asserted that the Crisis poems deal with the "misery and despair of sensual life," and element of his own natur which he had repressed until middle age. A bilingual edition with poems in the original German and translated into English by Ralph Manheim; 8vo; [xvi],121, [7] pages .

Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne. Very Good+. An edition in very good + condition with edgewear and rubbing with some tearing along the spine ; 16 pages; 1 lb .

1996. Hardcover. Originalverpackt. Größe des Buches: 11 cm Breite / 17 cm Höhe; In diesem Buch sind alle wichtigen Ereignisse der Jahre 1900 - 1996 aufgeführt, die an diesem Tag geschehen sind. Dieses wundervolle Buch ist im Handel nicht mehr erhältlich; FSA .