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San Diego, California, USA: Harvest Books/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1992. BX1 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated white wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with a small patch (about 1") on the right edge of the front cover plus there is some light scattered scuffing on the back cover. A book about the German language literature and literary trends of the post-war Germanies and the other major German-speaking countries Switzerland and Austria. The author places special emphasis on the social, political, and economic developments in each country and how these affected writers and literature. Selected bibliography of translations, recommended readings, indexed, 454p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 6"x9".

Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2006. BZ2 - A first American edition advance reading copy (ARC)/uncorrected proof book in very good+ condition with no dust jacket as issued (mass market paperback). An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in light blue paper wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. Translated from the German by Peter Constantine. A novel about the plight of young people in contemporary Germany. The main character is on a train trip to Berlin. A fellow passenger, with whom he is sharing his sleeper car, insists on telling about a love triangle he was drawn into. By the author of "Crazy." 110p.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 4.25"x7.25". Advance Reading Copy (ARC).

New York, New York, USA: McGraw-Hill Companies, The, 1973. CG4 - A tight, clean, sound copy with minor overall shelf wear plus some very light edge wear on the bottom board edges plus some soiling on the right outside paper edges plus the usual library stamps and pocket on the top and bottom outside paper edges and back endapapr plus some soiling on the inside board surfaces from where the dust jacket endflaps were glued down to the boards. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus there is the usual library label on the spine plus there is staining of the front & back endflaps from where there were glued down to the boards. A novel about the effects of Nazi Germany on a small group of people who lived there during the war. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. The book's main character is pursuing and interviewing a vast number of people in search of information about a famous but fictional author. This author is a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. By the… Read More

Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 1984. CN5 - An ex-library hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has light wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, taped label on the spine, inside flaps taped to the book cover, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has library markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc.), light discoloration and shelf wear. English-language edition prepared by Ellen Summerfield. The original edition of this work appeared in three volumes as Geschichte des deutschen Romans, copyright 1972, 1975, 1978 by Francke Verlag, Berne and Munich. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner Verlag, 1962. BW3 - Jahrbuch Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft (Band VI 1962) DJ has wrinkling, chipping, crease, and tears on some edges and corners, tanning on the spine and lightly on the edges and sides, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwies very good. Book has some lightly bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Text in German. Im Auftrag Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft Herausgegeben Von Fritz Martini, Walter Muller-Seidel, Bernhard Zeller. 6. Jahrgang 1962.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner Verlag, 1967. BW3 - Jahrbuch Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft (Band XI 1967) DJ has wrinkling, chipping, crease, and tears on some edges and corners, some tanning, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwies very good. Book has light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Text in German. Im Auftrag Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft Herausgegeben Von Fritz Martini, Walter Muller-Seidel, Bernhard Zeller. 11. Jahrgang 1967.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner Verlag, 1959. BW3 - Jahrbuch Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft (Band III 1959) DJ has wrinkling and chipping on some edges and corners, some tanning on the spine, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwies very good. Book has some lightly bumped corners, some light stains on the page edges, previous owner's seal stamped on the title page with a few writing, some dog-eared pages, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Text in German. Im Auftrag Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft Herausgegeben Von Fritz Martini, Herbert Stubenrauch, Bernhard Zeller. 3. Jahrgang 1959.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner Verlag, 1961. BW3 - Jahrbuch Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft (Band V 1961) DJ has wrinkling, chipping, crease, and tears on some edges and corners, tanning on the spine, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwies very good. Book has some lightly bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Text in German. Im Auftrag Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft Herausgegeben Von Fritz Martini, Walter Muller-Seidel, Bernhard Zeller. 5. Jahrgang 1961.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner Verlag, 1965. BW3 - Jahrbuch Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft (Band IX 1965) DJ has wrinkling, chipping and crease on some edges and corners, small peeling on the back bottom left corner, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwies very good. Book has some lightly bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Text in German. Im Auftrag Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft Herausgegeben Von Fritz Martini, Walter Muller-Seidel, Bernhard Zeller. 9. Jahrgang 1965.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner Verlag, 1964. BW3 - Jahrbuch Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft (Band VIII 1964) DJ has wrinkling, chipping, crease, and tears on some edges and corners, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwies very good. Book has some lightly bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Text in German. Im Auftrag Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft Herausgegeben Von Fritz Martini, Walter Muller-Seidel, Bernhard Zeller. 8. Jahrgang 1964.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner Verlag, 1963. BW3 - Jahrbuch Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft (Band VII 1963) DJ has wrinkling, chipping and crease on some edges and corners, tanning on the spine, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwies very good. Book has some lightly bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Text in German. Im Auftrag Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft Herausgegeben Von Fritz Martini, Walter Muller-Seidel, Bernhard Zeller. 7. Jahrgang 1963.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner Verlag, 1968. BW3 - Jahrbuch Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft (Band XII 1968) DJ has wrinkling, chipping and crease on some edges and corners, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwies very good. Book has light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Text in German. Im Auftrag Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft Herausgegeben Von Fritz Martini, Walter Muller-Seidel, Bernhard Zeller. 12. Jahrgang 1968.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner Verlag, 1966. BW3 - Jahrbuch Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft (Band X 1966) DJ has wrinkling, chipping and crease on some edges and corners, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwies very good. Book has light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Text in German. Im Auftrag Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft Herausgegeben Von Fritz Martini, Walter Muller-Seidel, Bernhard Zeller. 10. Jahrgang 1966.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 2006. A5 - A German language edition hardcover book SIGNED by Nicole Krauss on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some light discoloration and shelf wear. Text in German. This is the author's first novel. The story begins when a thirty-six year old popular Columbia University English professor is found wandering in the Nevada desert. His wife comes to bring him home they discover that he has a small brain tumor. The tumor is removed in order to save his life but the result is that he seems to remember nothing of his life beyond the age of twelve. He has permanently lost most of his life's memories. The professor, a keenly intelligent and sensitive man returns to a life in which he finds everything strange and new to him. His alienation from his own life leads him to accept the invitation of charismatic scientist to participate in a bold and sinister-sounding memory experiment in which the memories of… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1993. CA5 - A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy quarter bound in black cloth with white paper covered boards and red lettering on the spine plus with very minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library labels and stamps on the front and back endpapers and title page. The dust jacket is in very good- condition with no visible signs of wear and in a mylar sleeve plus with a library label on the spine. Translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside. The author is the editor of the German journal 'Kursbuch.' This is the story of a Prussian hypnotist and neurologist who craves worldly success in his search for the biological secret of genius. In the period between the two World Wars he is given the chance to dissect the brain of the dead Russian leader and it is his first opportunity to identify genius in its raw state. Times are grave though with hostilities mounting… Read More

New York, New York, USA: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975. BV3 - A hard cover 5th printing withdrawn ex-library book in good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in black vinyl covered boards with gold lettering and graphics on the spine and gold graphics against a red background on the front plus graphics blind stamped on the front with minor overall shelf wear plus some very light edge wear on the top spine edge and bottom spine edge and board edges plus the book is slightly shelf cocked plus there are the usual library stamps and pocket on the top and bottom outside paper edges, title page, and back endpaper plus there is residue (about 3.25"x4.5") from the removal of a label on the front endpaper plus there is some staining on the inside surfaces of the boards where the dust jacket endflaps were glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards plus some creasing around the bottom right corners of pages 113 through 116. The dust jacket shows minor overall wear plus there is the usual… Read More

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1963. AU2 - DJ is mylar protected. DJ has price clipped, label on the spine and taped label on the back, wrinkling and crease on the edges and corners, inside flaps taped twice on the top and bottom to the book cover, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise good. Book has rubbing on the cover edges, library stamping on the page edges and contents page with pencil writing, tape stains on the top and bottom of the loose endpapers, cardholder adhered on the front loose endpaper, label with some stains on the title page and copyright page, lightly water soiled on the first few pages, discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise good. Third edition revised and reset 1959, Reprinted 1963.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

London, East Sussex, United Kingdom: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1968. BC1 - A hard cover 3rd revised edition book in good+ condition. A tight, sound copy in red cloth covered boards with gold lettering and graphics on the spine with minor overall shelf wear with some blue ink underlining on pages 63 and 64 plus there is extensive underlining in red ink on pages 110 through 122 plus there are two spots of cloth separation from the board on the front (about 0.25"x1" and 0.75"x1.75") plus there is some light bumping of the right corners of the front board. The dust jacket shows minor overall shelf wear with some edge wear and chipping along the top and bottom spine edges and at the right corners plus there is a small closed tear (about 0.5") at the top left corner on the back. A book that examines German literature from 1880 to 1950. Bibliography, indexed, 584p. . 3rd Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

University of Toronto Press, 1967. H6 - DJ is mylar protected. DJ has price clipped, label on the lower spine, wrinkling and crease on some edges and corners, inside flaps glued to the fixed endpapers, discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise very good. Book has library stamping on the top and bottom page edges, loose endpapers, and title page, label and cardholder adhered on the back loose endpaper, discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise very good. In this study, emphasis is on the literary value of the Nibelungenlied rather than on philological questions surrounding it: it offers a close, detailed examination of the text itself.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Hague, Netherlands: Mouton & Co., 1970. BC5 - A first trade paperback edition book in good+ condition. No additional printings are indicated on the copyright page. A tight, clean, sound copy in light green wraps with minor overall shelf wear with some slight yellowing along the spine and around the edges of the covers plus there is some light yellowing of the outside paper edges. A book that examines the three major theories of the Novelle form in German literature, those of Goethe, Teck, and Heyse, from the standpoint of their historical origin and their applicability to the actual works in the genre. The author also includes a discussion of the theoretical comments made by Adalbert Stifter in the preface to "Bunte Steine." Bibliography, indexed, 120p.. First Trade Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.