German Language from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Allentown, PA: Trexler, Harlacher und Weisser, 1864. Paperback. 8vo. Blue printed wrappers. 94pp. Very good. Outer wrappers (only) a bit age toned, with a couple small edge chips; lacks rear folding chart found in some copies. Sharp copy, entirely in German, for this annual assembly of the German Evangelical-Lutheran Ministry of Pennsylvania and Adjacent States. This yearly report records… Read more about this item

Selins=Grove, PA: Druckerei des "American Lutheran, 1865. Paperback. 8vo. Blue printed wrappers. Pp. 65-128. Very good. Mild wear to outer wrappers, with couple of edhe chips, but overall tight and attractive. Second half only ("Driites und viertes Heft") of this chronicle of German-Lutheran ministries in Pennsylvania by the towering German-born clergyman and missionary Mühlenberg (1711-87). as here collected by… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1906. Hardcover. 12mo. Rebound in brown buckram with original brown cloth spine and front/rear panels, gilt lettered. xvi, 1146pp, 60pp ads. Full-page plates, floor plans, small engravings, several foldout maps (2 in facsimile). Very good. Some homely dampstaining to upper portion of first 60 or so leaves, with remainder tight and nice; inkstamped name/address on front… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., n.y.. Paperback. 4to. Stiff pictorial wrappers. (12pp). Numerous full-page illustrations (some color). Very good.Mild wear to outer wrappers and several small, neat archival mends. Attractive, if annoying bibliographically cryptic, children's verse entirely in German showing all the things that youngster Hans can do: Baking, tinsmithing, cobbling, seamstressing, dog nursing, cooking, bookbinding, gardening, clockmaking, barbering, farming and babysitting.… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., n.y.. Paperback. 4to. Heavy stock color pictorial wrappers. (12pp, heavy stock). Numerous illustrations (many color). Very good. Minor wear to outer wrappers (only). Bibliographically cryptic production, entirely in German, of this children's poem that illustrates fun things for bored kids to do. Undated, but circa early 29th century. The many small chromolithographed illustrations are expectedly charming. Title… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., n.y.. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth spine with large color pictorial plate to front board. (26pp). Numerous illustrations (some color and full page). Very good. Mild edgewear. Tight and attractive copy of this bibliographically cryptic poetry gathering, entirely in German, by the popular German author (1877-1958). Titles translates "In Sunshine" and text and non-color illustrations in brown ink.… Read more about this item

Columbus: L.B.C. [Lutheran Book Concern], 1917. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth spine and pictorial paper over boards. 63pp, 62pp. Frontispieces, illustrations. Near fine. A tight and quite nice copy of this two-part children's tale, entirely in German, whose front board title is "Waldemars Kinderjahre" (Waldemar's Childhood). First and second part titles translate as "Waldemar and His Grandfather" and "Waldemar… Read more about this item

Köln: Verlagsanstalt Benziger & Co, 1944. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. 149pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Spine and extremities a bit sunned; ownership signature on title page and 1949 gift inscription (in Latin, untranslated) from unknown on front flyleaf. Tight and nice first edition, entirely in German, of a selection chosen and translated by the… Read more about this item

Lahr: Ernst Kaufmann, n.y.. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth spine and color pictorial paper over boards. 64pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good. Faint rubbing to binding only, else tight and internally fine; text block faintly age toned per usual. Handsome copy of this young adult Christmas compilation, entirely in German, whose title translates as "Christmas Bells: Stories, Poems, Riddles, Sayings… Read more about this item

Hildesheim: Franz Borgmeyer, n.y.. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt lettering and green/black/ivory/brown/gilt pictorial stamping. 231pp, (1p). Frontispiece, 3 full-page plates. Near fine. Miniscule inkstamped ownership name on inner flyleaf. Tight and nice copy of this collection, entirely in German, a "Christmas Book -- Stories" by a variety of German authors. Undated but certainly early 20th century. Dorenwell… Read more about this item

Reutlingen: Enßlin & Laiblin, n.y.. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale blue pebble-grain cloth with gilt/black lettering and black/green/ivory pictorial stamping. 224pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Text block faintly age toned per usual. Tight and handsome early edition, entirely in German, of "Aunt Sybille: Stories for Girls." Undated but likely early 20th century. Quite a lovely copy.

München: Verlag Josef Müller, 1960. Hardcover. 24mo. Pictorial paper over boards. (16pp, 1p ad). Numerous full-page color illustrations. Near fine. Nonauthorial 1962 gift inscription on title page. Tight and lovely copy of this modern's children's charmer set on a farm and in a barn from the popular German children's illustrator (1920-2006). Entirely in German, the titles translates "Puk and… Read more about this item

Reutlingen: Druck und Verlag von Ensslin und Laiblin, n.y.. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering and color pictorial plate to front board. 208pp. Color frontispiece, 3 full-page color plates, text endpapers. Very good overall. Mildest of binding edgewear only; text block lightly age toned; several formerly folded-down page corners. Tight and charming undated edition, circa early 20th… Read more about this item

Glogau: Verlag von Carl Flemming, n.y.. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, rules and pictorial stamping. viii, 192pp, (4pp ads). Color frontispiece, 23 full-page color plates, 12 woodcuts. Very good. Binding lightly edgeworn; 1891 ownership signature on front pastedown; inner hiinges show discreet black cloth reinforcement, thus tight. Attractive 29th volume of this annual first begun in 1856,… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns Verlag, n.y.. Hardcover. Illustrations by Rolf Winkler. 4to. Quarter blue cloth with white spine lettering and beige pictorial paper over boards. 187pp, (5pp ads). Illustrations. Very good. Faintest of edgewear; nonauthorial gift inscription on title page. Handsome, tight undated (circa early 20th century) edition, entirely in German, of "Old and New Stories of Till Eulenspiegel: After… Read more about this item

Bielefeld: Verlag von Velhagen & Klafing, n.y.. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter red cloth with gilt spine lettering and pictorial paper over boards. vii, 200pp. Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations, full-page plates (some color), floral endpapers. Very good. Mild binding edgewear. Quite tight and nice copy, entirely in German, of the fifteenth volume of the popular "Kinderlust: A Yearbook for Boys… Read more about this item

Hamburg-Leipzig: Alfred Hahn's Verlag, n.y.. Hardcover. Illustrations by Ernst Kutzer. 8vo. Pale blue cloth spine and pictorial paper over boards. (38pp). Numerous illustrations (many full-page in color). Near fine. Couple of inoffensive tapoe stains on front pastedown and faint bit of binding wear, else tight and internally fine. Indeterminate edition, undated but possibly 1930s vintage, of this popular German… Read more about this item

Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe, 1884. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth over bevel-edged boards with gilt/black lettering and ornate black decorative stamping. 304pp. All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 17 full-page tissue-guarded plates, decorative endpapers. Very good. Mild binding edgewear; 1886 ownership signature on inner flyleaf and slip tipped to front flyleaf with same owner's Dayton, Ohio address. Quite lovely and tight… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Verlag vonSchmidt & Spring, n.y.. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with elaborate gilt, black, orange, light green, dark green and ivory lettering and pictorial stamping. iv, 572pp, (8pp ads). Color frontispiece, full-page plates (some in color), decorative endpapers. Very good. Quite minor binding wear only; inner hinges just a tad delicate. Undated but circa 1900 "Band 60" (Volume… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Verlag von Carl Krabbe, n.y.. Hardcover. Small 4to. Light grey cloth with gilt and black lettering and pictorial stamping. 420pp. Numerous small and full-page (some in green, blue, brown or other colors) illustrations, decorative endpapers. Near fine. Faintest of rubbing at spine head/tail. Astonishingly bright, tight and fresh "Erste Reihe" (First Series) of this Dickenesque writer's humorous writings… Read more about this item