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This is a mint-condition copy of Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, published in 1993. It is the 201 fairy tales and 10 legends written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the German academics and folklore collectors who, from 1812 to 1857, published the world's most famous fairy tales. Bound in navy blue leather with an inlaid foil design. Bound-in silk bookmark, gold-trimmed pages. 652 pages,… Read more about this item

The Beloved Returns, also known as Lotte in Weimar, is a 1939 novel written by the German writer and Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann (1975-1955). It is about a difficult and unconsummated romance. This is the fourth printing of the first American edition, dated 1957. 453 pages. Dark blue boards with the title impressed on the cover and gold lettering on spine. The gold… Read more about this item

The Holy Sinner is the last book written (in 1951) by the German writer and Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann (1975-1955). It explores the origins of evil, original sin, and evil's connection with magic. This is the first American edition, also dated 1951. 336 pages. Dark blue boards with the title impressed on the cover and gold lettering on spine. The original owner signed… Read more about this item

This is a leather-bound mint-condition copy of Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, published in 2011. It is the 201 fairy tales and 10 legends written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the German academics and folklore collectors who, from 1812 to 1857, published the world's most famous fairy tales. Bound in burgundy leather with an inlaid foil design. Bound-in silk bookmark, gold-trimmed pages. 652 pages,… Read more about this item

This is a lovely copy of The Swiss Family Robinson, the famous book, written in 1812, by the German-Swiss writer Johann Wyss. It is about a family of Swiss immigrants who were sailing to Australia when their ship was blown off course and they were stranded in the East Indies. This copy is liberally illustrated by… Read more about this item

This is a lovely copy of The Swiss Family Robinson, the famous book, written in 1812, by the German-Swiss writer Johann Wyss. It is about a family of Swiss immigrants who were sailing to Australia when their ship was blown off course and they were stranded in the East Indies. There is an illustration, either a… Read more about this item

This is a luxury edition of The Magic Mountain, written by the Thomas Mann (1875-1955), who won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. This classic novel, about career invalids snowbound in the Swiss Alps, was first published in 1924 and it is considered to be one of the most influential works of 20th century German literature. This copy was published by… Read more about this item

Joseph the Provider is the fourth book in Mann's four-part series Joseph and His Brothers, which Mann wrote over 16 years and completed in 1942. He re-tells the stories in Genesis, chapters 27-50, putting them in historical context. Mann, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, considered it his greatest work. This book was first published in Sweden (in… Read more about this item