Search Results: German Literature from Charles Agvent

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1981. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Fritz Eichenberg. Folio (9-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in natural-color, blind-stamped coarse-weave linen imported from the Netherlands; 386 pages. Translated and introduced by John Spielman. Illustrated with 18 dramatic full-page wood-engravings and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Fritz Eichenberg. Copy #1168 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine clamshell box. Fritz Eichenberg. Copy #12 of only 20 portfolios (out of a total edition of 50) with 18 final proofs on Torinoko handmade paper and 18 first proofs on Mohawk Superfine paper, each SIGNED by the artist and numbered. Each print is loose in a plain paper portfolio; the set is accompanied with a folded folio sheet of text (text leaf and portfolio sheets are 16-3/4" x 22"), first proof sheets on Mohawk Superfine (14" x 18-1/4"), final proof sheets on Torinoko (16-1/2" x 21-3/4"). Based on the woodblock illustrations done by Eichenberg for the Limited Editions Club book of the same title, also published in 1981. Housed in publisher's full tan cloth clamshell case, front cover lettered in blind.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1981. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Fritz Eichenberg. Folio (9-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in natural-color, blind-stamped coarse-weave linen imported from the Netherlands; 386 pages. Translated and introduced by John Spielman. Illustrated with 18 dramatic full-page wood-engravings and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Fritz Eichenberg. One of 2000 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1914. Second Edition. wraps. Covers a bit dusty; contents uncut. Near Fine. Original printed orange wraps; 44 pages.The addendum (18 pages) to this lecture is the first publication of one of Jung's lectures given in 1913/14 in the London Psycho-Medical Society, in which he first used the term "analytical psychology," establishing his own ideas and completely turning his back on Freud.

[Providence, RI], [1961-62]. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing to preliminaries. Near Fine. Ilse Buchert. Small thin folio (9-1/2" x 12-3/4") in decorated boards; [12] pages. Illustrated with a number of small black and red woodcuts scattered throughout the text. This version of Grimm's tale "The Kingbird and the Bear," a story of a humorous battle between the land animals and the flying creatures of the world, was printed and illustrated by Ilse Buchert in obviously small numbers, though no statement of limitation is included in the book.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Hardcover. Small tear to top of spine. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Rene Clarke. Large quarto (9-1/2" x 12-1/4") bound in full dark purple cloth, gold-stamped on the spine and sides. Modern translation by Alice Raphael with an introduction by Carl Schreiber and a note by Mark Van Doren. Copy #397 of 1500 designed and illustrated by Rene Clarke and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1985. First Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a mildly soiled, close to Fine slipcase. Gunter Grass. Three nearly square quarto volumes (11" x 10-1/2") bound with eelskin spines and Italian cloth covers. Illustrated from etchings by the author and Nobel Prize winner Gunter Grass. Five years in the making, this massive effort is a tribute from some of America's finest book craftspeople to one of Germany's most creative and recognized artists. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Copy #323 of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

[New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1987). Hardcover. Fine in a Fine clamshell box. Michael Hafftka. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/4") hand-sewn and hand-bound by Carol Joyce in full white parchment with yapp edges. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. Illustrated with four lithographs by Michael Hafftka printed on hand-made Japanese paper. Copy #78 of 800 numbered copies SIGNED by Hafftka on the colophon page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good in soiled and stained but intact slipcase. Two volumes in slipcase. The third installment in the Joseph tetralogy. INSCRIBED to Paul Elkin and SIGNED by the author on the title page of the first volume. Mann first wrote an "A" to begin Elkin's last name and then wrote over it.

Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Scattered light foxing, tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown; top 2 inches of leather on spine lacking, front hinge rubbed but tight. Very Good. Arthur Rackham. Quarto (9" x 11-3/4") in 3/4 navy blue morocco leather and marbled boards, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. First edition in French, translated by Charles Guyot, of this selection of Grimm's Tales illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With 16 full-page color plates with captioned tissue guards, as well as 6 full-page black & white illustrations and 8 black & white text drawings. Copy #468 of 1300.

[Montagnola]: Privatdruck, 1948. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. String-tied printed wraps (4-1/2" x 6-1/4"); 13 pages plus covers. INSCRIBED in German and SIGNED with his initials in ink by the Nobel Prize winner on the colophon page. From the estate of George Goetz, a Danish Jew living in Sweden because of persecution. He maintained a correspondence with Hesse, only recently discovered, from 1939 to 1951. Their letters discussed everything from the trivial to Hesse's work and its place in Nazi Germany. One common point of interest was the German-Jewish philosopher Constantin Brunner (Goetz would later become President of the International Constantin Brunner Institute.). This book, as well as several other titles inscribed to Goetz, were discovered with the letters and is now being offered for public sale for the first time.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Felix Hoffmann. Two quarto volumes (7" x 10-7/8") bound in linen shelfback with the title stamped in gold on a gray-green label of Italian Roma paper and boards covered with a smoke-brown, mould-made French paper impressed with a design by Max Caflisch. Illustrated with 53 wood engravings including 10 full page printed in three colors by Felix Hoffmann. Copy #1098 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

Breslau, Hirschberg und Lissa in Südpreußen: Johann Friedrich Korn, 1799. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean and complete with all endpapers and blanks. Near Fine. Contemporary marbled boards with later cloth tape over the spine; [vi], 260 pages. Scarce account of travels in 18th century Germany.

New York: Limited Editions Club, (1984). Hardcover. Typical sunning to the spine and a few rubbed spots to the front board. Still Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with some rubbing. Jose Luis Cuevas. Large octavo (8-1/4" x 11") bound in quarter gray-green goatskin with paper covered boards. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir with an introduction by Robert Coles. Illustrated with five subtle yet striking ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE ETCHINGS by Jose Luis Cuevas specially created for this edition. Copy #323 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, (1984). Hardcover. Typical sunning to the spine and a few small rubbed spots to the edge of the front board. Still Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with some rubbing on the backstrip. Jose Luis Cuevas. Large octavo (8-1/4" x 11") bound in quarter gray-green goatskin with paper covered boards. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir with an introduction by Robert Coles. Illustrated with five subtle yet striking ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE ETCHINGS by Jose Luis Cuevas specially created for this edition. Copy #887 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, (1984). Hardcover. Typical sunning to the spine which has a small dampstain at the heel. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Jose Luis Cuevas. Large octavo (8-1/4" x 11") bound in quarter gray-green goatskin with paper covered boards. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir with an introduction by Robert Coles. Illustrated with five subtle yet striking ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE ETCHINGS by Jose Luis Cuevas specially created for this edition. Copy #447 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Small manufacturer's defect to cloth. About Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Edy Legrand. Small quarto (7-3/4" x 11-3/4") bound in full black cloth with the title blindstamped on the front cover and goldstamped over red on the spine with lettering in medieval style by Arnold Bank. Translated from the German by Margaret Armour with an introduction by Franz Schoenberner. Printed by Joh. Enschede in Holland from the typographic plans of Jan van Krimpen. With 23 full-page line-and-wash drawings by Edy Legrand hand-colored through stencils in the studio of Walter Fishcer. Copy #1087 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

[New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1987). Hardcover. Some light staining to the vellum. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Lovely edition of this important novel. Large octavo (7-1/2" x 10-1/4") bound in white vellum with gilt lettering. In the definitive translation by Stephen Mitchell. Copy #323 of 800 copies set in monotype didot and printed at Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy, and bound by Recalcati in Milan. Issued unsigned.

(Berlin & Frankfurt): (Im Suhrkamp Verlag), (1954). Facsimile Edition. Wraps. Fine in a Very Good case. Plain brown wraps with separate 4-page brochure of text, both housed in a paper clamshell box with a printed label on the front cover and spine. Facsimile of the manuscript with reproductions of the 8 watercolors that Hesse made for his wife in 1922. With a new afterword by Hesse.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1957. Hardcover. Bookplate on front pastedown. Spine faded with a few rubbed spots. Very Good, contents Fine, in a Near Fine slipcase. Fritz Kredel. Octavo (6" x 9-1/2") bound in half smooth green calfskin leather, with a gold-stamped label, and hand-decorated paper over boards; 354 pages. Selected, translated, and with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. The text is set in Monotype Walbaum, employed here for the first time in America. With charming illustrations by Fritz Kredel, colored by hand through stencils in the studio of Walter Fischer. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.