Weissbuch über die Erschiessungen des 30. Juni.
Paris: Editions du Carrefour, 1935. Third edition. In heavy white stock wraps. Octavo, pp. 207. Well illustrated with b/w photographs. An uncommon treatment of the Roehm Putsch. More
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Schopenhauer (=Schriftenreihe 'Ausblicke' Doppelband).
Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer, 1938. First edition. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. 83, Thomas Mann pays homage to one of the great philosophical influences in his work. A better than average copy of this uncommon title. More
Forced Migration and Scientific Change : Emigré German-Speaking Scientists and Scholars after 1933 (Publications of the German Historical Institute).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. pp. xvii, 301. Forward by Donald Fleming. An edition of 14 individual contributions. Indexed. As study as scholarly as it is scarce. Written by a multidisciplinary group of German, British and American scholars. The study provides a richer, much more differentiated..... More
Tubutsch (signed by the illustrator Kokoschka).
New York: The Profile Press, 1946. First illustrated, limited edition. Publisher's blue cloth w/red title on spine & cover. Octavo, pp. 79, with 11 full-page illustrations by Oskar Kokoschka, translated by Eric Posselt and Era Zistel. One of only 1000 copies ( actually, presumably an unnumbered copy from the limited..... More
Tubutsch.
New York: The Profile Press, 1946. First illustrated, limited edition. Publisher's blue cloth w/red title on spine & cover. Octavo, pp. 79, with 11 full-page illustrations by Oskar Kokoschka, translated by Eric Posselt and Era Zistel. One of only 1000 copies. The text, Ehrenstein's Tubutsch, is one of the icons..... More
On Revolution.
New York: Viking Press, 1963. First printing. Original publisher's cloth. Octavo, pp. 343. Notes, bibliography and index. An extremely creative and brilliant study of the history of revolution, by one of the foremost intellectuals of her time. In typical Arendt fashion, she advances a proposal for making revolution relevant again..... More
Zeitklaenge; Komponisten-portraets und Dirigenten-profile
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Cosmopolita, 1945. First edition. Original blue Cloth. Octavo, pp. 166 w/ 8 b/w plates. scarce exile title from South America. More
Kehre Wieder Ueber die Berge; Eine Autobiographie
New York: Willard Publishing CO., 1945. Limited ed. Publisher's cloth. Octavo, pp. 351 w/index, one photograph, ephemera laid in. limited edition (#185) inscribed to Harvard professor. Uncommon exile title. More
Freud und die Zukunft.
Vienna: Bermann-Fischer Verlag, 1936. First edition. Wraps. octavo pp 41. A speech by Mann on the occasion of Freud's eightieth birthday. In German. rare piece. The intersection of two great European thinkers and literary stylists. A wonderful, if somewhat tortured, essay. More
Der Antifaschistische Widerstandskampf der KPD im Spiegel des Flugblattes 1933-1945.
Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1978. First edition. Boxed in Gray Cloth. Folio. in cloth box. 240 facs, some in color and others in b/w. in German. An impressive boxed portfolio. Very uncommon. The kind of publication the East Germans did extremely well. More
Die Maerchen.
Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1935. First edition. Illustrated publisher's boards. Octavo, pp. 64, richly illustrated with line drawings, in Heine's inimitable style. The cover drawing in green and black shows Heine in a more Beardsley-esque mode. An uncommon title, a product of the exile experience. More
MEIN WERK, Daemonen und Nachtgesichte; 130 Bildtafeln mit einer Autobiographie, fortgefuehrt bis 1931.
Dresden: Carl Reisner Verlag, 1931. First edition. Publisher's boards w/title in blue on cover & spine. Octavo, pp. 128, 130 b/w illustrations, text in German. A nice copy of a book which is generally found with the hinges broken. Illustrations give a wonderful overview of Kubin's work. Ex library of..... More
Die Weisse Rose.
Zurich: Buechergilde Gutenberg, 1942. First edition thus. Publisher's cloth, w/design on cover. Quarto, pp. 206, text in German. First edition of the 1942 Zurich publication; uncommon with the avant garde looking dustjacket, which was not present in the 1929 edition. An uncommon edition of an interesting and controversial Traven title..... More
Momentos estelares de la humanidad; cinco miniaturaas historicas
Santiago, Chile: Editorial Osiris, 1935. Original Wraps. 12 mo (5 X 7 1/2), pp. 95, text in Spanish. scarce exile title. More
Der Irrweg einer Nation; Ein Beitrag zum Verstaendnis deutscher Geschichte
Mexico City: El Libro Libre, 1945. First edition. decorated orig. wrappers. 12mo, pp 252. text in German. a very good copy of a scarce and important example of exile lit. More
Yawcob Strauss Series: Yawcob's Dribulations, Leedle Yawcob Strauss, Der Oak and der Vine, and Vas Marriage a Failure? Inscribed by the author.
Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1894. First edition. Dark Green Cloth over Boards. Oblong 12mo (7.5" x 5"), unpaginated, 22 chromolithographs printed by Louis Prang. Author's b/w portrait on frontispiece. Bookplate of the Boston Authors Club on inside front cover. Note in pencil indicates "gift of American Academy of Arts..... More
Geschichten aus Sieben Ghettos.
Amsterdam: Verlag Allert de Lange, 1934. First edition. Pictorial Boards. Quarto, pp. 216, illustrated throughout, text in German. scarce exile title, illustrated by P. Urban. More
Kleines Deutsches Reise-ABC; Los oyentes del Pequeno ABC Aleman emprenden un viaje a Alemania.
(Berlin): Deutschen Kurzwellensender, 1939. First edition. Original Illustrated Wraps. 12 mo (5 3/4 X 8 1/4), illustrated with colored drawings. Extremely scarce WWII document, printed to teach Spanish-speaking tourists German. It was a text which was coordinated with a German curriculum that was taught over the radio! The instructor was..... More
Erobert, nicht befreit; Das Deutsche Volk im Ersten Besatzungsjahr
New York: American Association for a Democratic Germany, 1946. First edition. Paperback Original. 8° (Octavo), pp. 72. OBrosch. minimal berieben, kaum bestoßen, ausgezeichneter Zustand. Ausgabe Nr. 1 der Serie! More
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