New York: Praeger, 1966. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 215, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and architectural drawings. The author traces the recent history of housing construction, from the pioneering efforts of the architects of the 1930s to create dignified housing for the poor, to the actual..... More
Oberbayern: Getrud Arntz-Winter, 1984. First edition. Original Wraps. Octavo, 2 volumes, pp. 122, 158, text in German, Volume II covers 1974-1983. More
Hanover: 1962. Limited ed, #1527/2000. Publisher's green cloth w/ gilt design on cover. Octavo, pp. unpaginated, richly illustrated, ephemera laid in, text in German. A facsimile of the first edition, in a limited edition. Beautiful production. More
Munich: Braun & Schneider, 1862. First edition. Linen over Boards. qu-8° (Octavo), pp. 24 (12 einseitig bedruckte Blätter) mit 24 fabrigen Holzschnitten. Hlbd. fachmännisch neu gebunden unter Verwendung des orig. Titelblatts (als Kopie), neue Vorsatzblätter. Einband absolut fehlerlos, innen etw. gebräunt, originales Vorsatzblatt mit minimalen fehlstellen, ein wenig stockfleckig, sonst..... More
Leipzig: Insel, o.J. (1938). First edition. Decorated Boards. 12mo, pp. 39 mit 19 farbigen Abbildungen. Ill.Obrosch. etwas lichtgebräunt, am Rücken locker, innen sehr schön und sauber. an interesting usage of the Grimm Brothers during the Nazi era. More
Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Brothers, Inc., n.d. (ca. 1924). Original edition. Decorated Boards. Octavo, pp. 142. Illustrated with b/w drawings, 6 chromolithographic plates. Some illustrations are "extra-colored", no doubt by a young reader. A quite nice copy of this edition of Grimm's fairy tales, rewritten in one-syllable words for easy reading..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Michael di Capua Books, 1988. First edition. Cloth Binding with Color Illustrated DJ, slightly torn. Octavo pp 30 Color illustrations. A Grimm's fairy tale discovered in 1983, about a little girl, sent into the woods by her mother in order to be saved from..... More
Duisburg: Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum. First printing. Wraps. in German. octavo. pp 264. well-illustrated with photographs and reproductions. fascinating, visually stimulating story. very scarce. More
Leipzig: Hermann Seeman Nachfolger. First edition. Original Cloth, faded around edges. octavo. pp 83. with 100 illustrations,. photographs in black-and-white. In German. an uncommon study by v. Bode, a major expert of the day. More
1942. Two-ring bound boards with thumb tabs on pages. The German Nazi bible for literary censorship. A very powerful document in the 1943-1945 German era. Only copy currently available. More
Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1973. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 462, richly illustrated w/ color and b/w photographs and reproductions, glossy paper. Scarce in US, a nicely illustrated book. More
Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags Anstalt, ca. 1900. Achtzigste Auflage. Trade Cloth over Boards, 4-color illustrated cover. Quarto, pp. 29, richly illustrated in b/w. Very nice copy of one of the scarcer Wilhelm Busch titles. More
Idstein im Taunus: Verlag Georg Grandpeirre, 1929. 5th revised edition. Original Wraps. 12 mo (5 1/2 X 8 3/4), pp. 55, text in German. maintains the pacifist, antiwar sentiment of the bestselling book is overstated. One of the scarce documents centered around the aftermath of WWI during the Weimar era..... More
Essen: Vulkan-Verlag Dr. W. Classen, 1950. Red Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 328, richly illustrated in b/w. More
Munich: Rösl, 1920. First edition. Half-Leather. sm-8° (Octavo), pp. 111 mit 8 handcolorierten Vignetten und 14 Zierstücken. OHlbd. auf Japanpapier und Kopfgoldschnitt a. Rücken, letzterer berieben, Einbd. etwas bestoßen, innen ordentlich. Sehr schönes und seltenes Exemplar. More
