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Faust…Traduction d’Albert Stopfer
Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1885. One of 15 copies on Whatman paper, from the Large Paper edition of... Read More about Faust…Traduction d’Albert Stopfer
Price: $1,500
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A Letter to American Teachers of History.
Washington: [Privately printed at the Press of J. H. Furst Co., Baltimore.], 1910. First edition. Signed by Adams at the end of the introductory letter, as it seems that most copies were. Adams, historian and a direct descendant of John Quincy Adams, published and disseminated widely this present work. It..... Read More about A Letter to American Teachers of History
Price: $750
The Burgomaster of Berlin. Translated from the German...[by William Atkinson Gardner].
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1843. First Edition in English, with half-titles. Read More about The Burgomaster of Berlin. Translated from the German...[by William Atkinson Gardner
Price: $450
A Walk on the Wild Side.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First edition. Read More about A Walk on the Wild Side
Price: $200
Wie ich es sehe.
[Berlin & Munich: S. Fischer & Hans von Weber, 1913]. Copy CXI of 150 copies. Publication no. 4 of the Drucke fuer die Hundert-fuenfzig. Finely printed edition of Wich Ich Es Sehe, the first book by Peter Altenberg (1859-1919), a key figure in fin-de-siècle Viennese literature. With the elegrant motif..... Read More about Wie ich es sehe
Price: $400
The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy, from the Danish...translated by Mary Howitt.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1845. First Edition in English. Read More about The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy, from the Danish...translated by Mary Howitt
Price: $300
![Item #323783 The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken]. Hans Christian Andersen](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/323783.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690410113)
The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken].
New York: R.H. Russell, 1898. The Merrrymount Edition. Read More about The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken
Price: $350
Contes d'Andersen. Traduit du Danois par D. Soldi.
Paris: Hachette, 1905. Read More about Contes d'Andersen. Traduit du Danois par D. Soldi
Price: $100
Adolf Hitler. Der letzte 'grosse' Antisemit.
New York: Weltdemokratische Vereinigong, 1939. Read More about Adolf Hitler. Der letzte 'grosse' Antisemit
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The Price of the Ticket.
New York: St. Martins, [1985]. First Edition. Read More about The Price of the Ticket
Price: $250
ANS to Alfred Eisenstaedt.
Duluth: March 11, 1948. Margaret Frances Culkin Banning. Best-selling author and early advocate of women's rights. Daughter of William E. Culkin who served two terms in the Minnesota State Senate (1895-99). Spent one year at Sacred Heart Academy in Rochester, New York. B.A., Vassar College, 1912; certificate, Chicago School of..... Read More about ANS to Alfred Eisenstaedt
Price: $75
The Dedication Copy, Inscribed in Berryman’s Great Year
Berryman’s Sonnets. Now First Imprinted.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1967]. First edition. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed in Berryman’s Great Year. The printed dedication, to his publisher, reads: To Robert Giroux Inscribed by the author beneath, “with love & admiration over our whole lives (so far), John, NY 5 May ’67”. Berryman’s acclaimed sonnet..... Read More about Berryman’s Sonnets. Now First Imprinted
Price: $7,500
Stephen Crane … The American Men of Letters Series.
New York: William Sloane Associates, [1950]. First edition. First edition of Berryman's biography of Stephen Crane, signed ("John Berryman") on the title-page. Read More about Stephen Crane … The American Men of Letters Series
Price: $1,000
He Created the Myth of Nietzsche
Collection of six books inscribed to the author's brother Hans Georg, including: Deutsche Gestalten. Fest- und Gedenkreden, 1934. The Dedication...
Leipzig, Berlin: Insel-Verlag, etc, 1928-1936. First editions of the first four titles, later editions of the last two titles. He Created the Myth of Nietzsche. Ernst Bertram (1884-1957), Germanist and poet, was appointed professor of German literature and philology at the University of Cologne in 1921. His friends included Stefan..... Read More about Collection of six books inscribed to the author's brother Hans Georg, including: Deutsche...
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The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn.
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. No. 458 of 500 copies. "an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L. Sesler" and below in another hand J.S. Brown. Emily Preston was a Cobden-Sanderson student who ran a bindery at 223 East 17th St., NYC and was..... Read More about The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn
Price: $650
Cuentos descorteses. Selección y prológo de Jorge Luis Borges.
[Buenos Aires: Ediciones Librería La Ciudad, por Franco Maria Ricci, 1978]. Limited first edition, no. 1026 of 4,000 copies. The second volume in the series La Biblioteca de Babel, named after Borges' famous short story. All selections in the series were made by Borges, who wrote prologues for each; he..... Read More about Cuentos descorteses. Selección y prológo de Jorge Luis Borges
Price: $75
![Item #332912 La Metamorfosis [Translated from the German with a prologue by Jorge Luis Borges]....](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/332912.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690411120)
La Metamorfosis [Translated from the German with a prologue by Jorge Luis Borges].
Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, [1938]. First edition. Borges’ translation of the short stories and parables of Franz Kafka, published shortly before he released his collection of stories, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan. Read More about La Metamorfosis [Translated from the German with a prologue by Jorge Luis Borges
Price: $750
Literatura Germanicas Medievales.
Buenos Aires: Falbo Librero, [1966]. First edition. Maria Esther Vázquez, author of Los nombres de la muerta (1964), was also co-author with Borges of Introducción a la literatura inglesa (1965). Read More about Literatura Germanicas Medievales
Price: $150
How Come Christmas.
New York: Harpers Bros, 1930. First Edition. One of 1450 copies sent out by Harpers as a Xmas gift. A scarce book, even rarer in it's original gift box. Read More about How Come Christmas
Price: $250
Stucke (Plays), complete.
Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1957-1965 (Volume 9 is dated 1965). All are first editions except Vol I and IX. Read More about Stucke (Plays), complete
Price: $300
![Item #324908 Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England [nach Marlowe]. Historie. Bertolt Brecht](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/324908.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690410478)
Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England [nach Marlowe]. Historie.
POTSDAM: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1924. First edition of author's third book. Read More about Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England [nach Marlowe]. Historie
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Nature.
New York: Printed for Random House [by the Bremer Presse], [1929]. Number ccxxvi of 530 copies on Zanders hand-made paper (250 done for Random House). Initial designed by Anna Simons. Read More about Nature
Price: $300
One of 85 copies
Die Echten Ausgaben von Goethes Faust.
[Munich: Bremer Presse, 1932]. First edition, no. 61 of 85 copies, signed by Martin Bodmer on the colophon. One of 85 copies. Scarce trial specimen in preparation for a proposed edition of Goethe. Read More about Die Echten Ausgaben von Goethes Faust
Price: $1,250
Victoria und ihre Geschwister, mit fliegenden Fahnen und brennender Lunte.
Berlin: Maurersche Buchhandlung, 1817. Read More about Victoria und ihre Geschwister, mit fliegenden Fahnen und brennender Lunte
Price: $300
Presentation inscription to Henry Luce
The Strange Case of Miss Annie Sprague.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. First Edition. Presentation inscription to Henry Luce. “A subtle championship of pagan rebellion against oppressive Christian moralism” (Barron). With presentation inscription “To Harry and Lila Luce with all the best of everything from Louis and Mary Bromfield, Socoa B. P. 1928” tipped in..... Read More about The Strange Case of Miss Annie Sprague
Price: $250
The Mountain Muse. Comprising the Adventures of Daniel Boone; and The Power of Virtuous and Refined Beauty.
Harrisonburg, Virginia: Davidson and Bourne, 1813. First Edition, without half-title. Read More about The Mountain Muse. Comprising the Adventures of Daniel Boone; and The Power of Virtuous and...
Price: $200