Germany from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Chambersburg: In der Druckerei der Hoch-deutsch-reformirten kirche, 1845. Second edition ("Zweite Auflage"). Octavo (20cm). Publisher's embossed cloth with gilt spine titles; 560pp. Withdrawn library copy, with stamp to front pastedown, bookplate at rear pastedown (Catawba College), but no other institutional markings. A sound, generally clean volume, with scattered foxing mostly to text block edges and endpapers; Very Good. Text… Read more about this item

New York: Herald Publishing Co, 1944. Pictorial staple-bound pamphlet; illus.; 23pp; illus. Small spot of darkening to front cover, else clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. Sensational text linking Hitler to a variety of prominent women, including Leni Riefenstahl as well as Unity Freeman, the Viennese dancer "La Jana", and others. Includes a second section titled "Sexual Morality in… Read more about this item

London: Secker and Warburg, 1984. First U.K. Edition. First impression. Bound from American sheets. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 243pp. Mild evidence of use: a bit of dusting to edges of text block; private ownership name and ink shelf-number; corners slightly bumped; Very Good. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £9.95 at base of front flap), lightly rubbed and worn;… Read more about this item

Pfullingen: Günther Neske, 1961. First Edition. Two octavo volumes. Black cloth over boards, titles stamped in white on spines; dustjackets; publisher's plain card slipcase; 662+481pp. Very fine in like dustwrappers - an as-new set. Text entirely in German. The culmination and re-working of Heidegger's lectures on Nietzsche, delivered at the University of Freiberg from 1936 to 1953.… Read more about this item

Berlin: Verlagsgenossenschaft "Freiheit, 1919. 41-50 Tausend. Octavo pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 48pp. Light wear and toning to text; Very Good. Stenographic transcript of Ledebour's address to the court following his indictment in the failed 1919 overthrow of the Ebert-Scheidemann government. The coup attempt is noteworthy for having resulted in the murders of two of the uprising's leaders, Karl Liebknecht… Read more about this item

Moskau [i.e., Moscow]: Verlagsgenossenschaft Auslandischer Arbeiter in der USSR, 1934. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial paper wrappers; 158,(2)pp. Front cover stained at upper margin, else a tight, Very Good copy, with text fresh and unmarked. No. 12 in the series "Aus der Werkstatt der Revolution." Text entirely in German. Concerns the strike of railway workers in Rostov-am-Don in 1902, considered… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1906. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Green cloth stamped in gilt; [x],374pp; 9 folding maps, 6 plates. Sound and straight, through lightly rubbed, with puncture to cloth over spine: Very Good. German Official Account of the War in South Africa, March to September 1900. MENDELSSOHN I, p.490.

Berlin: H. Berthold, (1924). Quarto. Textured, paper-covered boards, with titles printed in colors; [92]pp, chiefly illus. Title pages in Hebrew and German; Preface in seven languages, including German, Yiddish, Arabic, English, Hebrew, Polish and French, signed in type by Josef Tscherkassky, Manager of the Oriental Department of Type-Foundry H. Berthold AG. Spine backstrip lacking; general external rubbing and wear;… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [n.d.]. Reprint. Octavo (24cm). Black cloth stamped in gilt; xviii,317,[1]pp; folding color map frontispiece. Bookplate of Thomas Barbour to front pastedown. Bookseller's ticket of the Old Corner Book Store, Boston to f.f.e.p. Sturdy, lightly rubbed, gilt rubbed off spine, frontispiece partly detached, else generally Very Good. [61953].

[Harrisburg]: Military Service Publishing Company, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on half-title: "To Walter Brinckerhoff / best wishes of the author and co-author," signed by both authors, dated January, 1941. Octavo. Terra-cotta cloth hardcover; gilt titles; 312pp. Trace of wear to board edges and corners; Very Good or better, lacking the dustwrapper. "A true historical narrative… Read more about this item

Carlisle Barracks, PA: Medical Field Service School, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. Textured thick paper wrappers; 108pp. Conspicuous scuff to lower front wrapper; creasing to covers; Very Good. Unattributed memoir of a German field surgeon in WW1, translated for the use of American students at the American Field Service School. Uncommon.

New York: Harper Collins, (2001). First Edition. First printing. Octavo Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; x,326pp, illus. Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper. Account of members of the Jewish Brigade Group in the British Army during WW2, and their subsequent careers as Nazi hunters and members of the Haganah Underground. A new-appearing, apparently unread copy.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1969). First edition of this translation. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; 171,12pp. Neat ink ownership signature to front endpaper, else tight, unmarked and Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A volume in the publisher's series "International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method," under the general editorship of Ted Honderich.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1973). First English Language Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; 390pp. Neat ink ownership signature to front endpaper, else tight, unmarked and Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A volume in the publisher's series "International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method," under the general editorship of Ted Honderich.

New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1923. Fourth edition. 12mo. Publishers ribbed red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 293,(1)pp. Mild cover soil; text a bit toned at margins; a tight, Very Good copy. Translation of Remy's Das Jüdische Weib (1892).

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, (1980). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xiv,610pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper, else a tight, Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, lightly rubbed, still Near Fine.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. First English Language Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xvi,154,(4)pp. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper, else tight, fine, and unmarked. In the original dustwrapper, slightly sun-faded on spine panel, otherwise Fine.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 349pp. Remainder stamp to bottom edge of text block, else a tight, Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped, very mildly worn, Near Fine.

Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1918. Third edition. Large octavo. Half linen over printed paper-covered boards; xxv,797pp; 2pp publisher's ads. Neat ink ownership signature to first blank. External soiling and wear, with bottom board edges rubbed through in spots; spine cloth slightly darkened; text remains fresh, clean, and tightly bound. A very good copy. Text entirely in German. The first… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Fr. Frommann, 1909. Dritte vermehrte Auflage" [3rd expanded edition]. Octavo. Half-bound in linen over textured cloth; floral pulp-paper endpapers; xxiv,402pp + 10pp publisher's catalog. Light wear to spine ends and board corners, with a small chip to cloth at crown of spine; neat ink ownership signature to front endpaper; still a tight, solidly VG copy. Text entirely in… Read more about this item