German Literature In Translation from Berthoff Books

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 313 pages, with index of names, index of works, illustrated with b&w reproductions of portraits on four double-sided plates. English translation of a work issued in German 1957, revised 1977. Trade paperback, creases to spine, foxing to edges, scant shelf wear. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written… Read more about this item

A.A. Wyn, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 509 pages, with short introduction, biographical note. First edition thus. Ten tales, illustrated with 27 full-page color and b&w lithographs by Richard Lindner. Royal 8vo (7" x 9-3/4"), dark red cloth with heavily rubbed gilt lettering and decoration, faded red topstain, wear to boards especially corners/crown/heel which has 1/2" tear at front of… Read more about this item

Schiller Institute, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 562 pages. Translations include Wilhelm Tell, essays on aesthetics and on history, poems. Trade paperback, slight wear to corners, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned. Former owner's name written on ffep, interior pages unmarked.

New Benjamin Franklin House, 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 451 pages, with 16 pages of b&w illustrations. Collection includes Don Carlos, the Letters on Don Carlos, the essays "Theater Considered as a Moral Institution" and "On the Aesthetical Education of Man", some poems, and the Ghost Seer. Trade paperback, shelf wear, chip to heel, edges… Read more about this item

John Calder, 1976. Soft cover. Good. 93 pages, with two-page introduction and one-page biographical chronology on Mörike. The 1856 novella is a fictionalized account of Mozart's travelling, with Constanze, to Prague for the premiere of Don Giovanni. Translated from German by Leopold von Loewenstein-Wertheim. Mass-market paperback, shelf wear and light creasing to wraps, rubbed along spine, break in… Read more about this item

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1969. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 570 pages. Translated and edited by Henry Steinhauer. Includes works by Wieland, Kleist, Thomas Mann. Mass-market paperback, crease to spine, wraps soiled, front cover eroded in one spot, dust-soil to top edge, a few spots of foxing to other edges and end papers. Names of former owners Profs.… Read more about this item

New York Review Books Classics, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 128 pages. Stories selected and translated from German by Joel Rotenberg. Introduction by the Irish writer John Banville. Small trade paperback (5" x 8"), little wear, a bit of dust soil to top edge, sticker remnants on back cover, binding tight, pages bright. Underscoring and/or marginalia by former… Read more about this item

W W Norton & Company Inc, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 468 pages, with index, notes, and list of correspondents. Translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M.D. Herter Norton. Illustrated with five b&w photos and one ms. facsimile. First Norton Library edition of collection published 1948. Includes selected Wartime Letters. Trade paperback, wraps a bit curled, with light wear… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Soft cover. Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. Translated by A. Poulin, Jr. 205 pages plus 11 pages front matter and translator's Preface. Trade paperback, crease to spine, binding cracked at p. 44-45, light shelf wear, dust soil to top edge, foxing to fore-edge and end papers. Notes observed on two pages (one in preface, one… Read more about this item

North Point Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1994. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 258 pages, including four pages of Notes at the end, plus 16 pages front matter/introduction. Translated by Edward Snow. German originals and English translations on facing pages. Fourth printing (1996) of Revised Edition; translation of Das Buch der Bilder first published 1991. Trade… Read more about this item

Schocken Books, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. UNCORRECTED BOUND GALLEYS. As such, the book lacks page numbers, but 320-page length stated. A new translation, based on the restored text; translated and with a preface by Mark Harman. Includes a biographical chronology. Trade paperback-sized, scant wear, pages bright inside and on edges. Underscoring/mark observed on one page, in the… Read more about this item

New Directions, 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. 154 pages plus six of front matter/foreword. Translated by G. Craig Houston, Foreword by Denise Levertov. Collection first published 1960 as Vol. I of Selected Works. Fifteen essays and one lecture, first published between 1903 and 1938. Small trade paperback (5-1/4" x 8"), light soil to wraps, minimal shelf wear, foxing/dust… Read more about this item

W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. Soft cover. Good. 306 pages. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Annotated by the translators. A dozen pages of b&w photos. 8vo, plain paper wrappers, soiled and worn, reading crease. Note about review due date written on front cover. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil throughout and notes on rear… Read more about this item

Univeristy of California Press, 1966. Soft cover. Good. 322 pages, with index of persons, lists of Rilke's works in German and French and his translations, and of German titles of Rilke's works, author's notes. First paperback edition of the English translation published 1964. The book, first published 1936, recounts the last seven years of Rilke's life (1919-1926). Included… Read more about this item

W.W. Norton & Company, 1940. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 279 pages, with translator's introduction, ~40 pages of notes, list of correspondents. 8vo, gray cloth soiled and heavily sunned, with black lettering faded on front board and entirely gone from spine which has losses from previously applied sticky tape, tape remnants in 1" strip of back board… Read more about this item

W.W. Norton & Company, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 245 pages, with Foreword and Notes by the translator. German originals and English translations are printed facing. 8vo, tan boards with light brown cloth quarter, faded black lettering on spine, fore-edge rough-cut, corn-yellow end papers, heavy wear to corners/crown/heel, top half of backstrip reglued where it was… Read more about this item

W.W. Norton & Company, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 93 pages. First Norton Library edition of translation first published 1932, revised 1959, of vignettes written 1899 and first published in German 1904. Includes one-page biographical note and three-page translator's Foreword. Printed with German original and English translation facing. Small trade paperback (5" x 7-3/4") with… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, 1961. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 270 pages plus 28 pages front matter and introduction, with index of titles, index of first lines. Introduced and edited by Michael Hamburger. Plain prose English translation appears on each page below the German verses. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, rubbed along spine, faint foxing visible on faux… Read more about this item

Bantam Books, 1961. Soft cover. Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 360 pages. Ninth printing. Stories in the original German with translations, critical introductions, notes and vocabulary by the editor. Includes stories by Goethe, Hoffmann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Kafka, others. Mass-market paperback, wraps soiled, rubbed, worn at corners, 1" tear to top edge of back cover taped from inside,… Read more about this item

Schocken Books, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 328 pages. "A new translation based on the restored text." First paperback edition. With Publisher's Note, Translator's Preface, Afterword to the German Critical Edition (Malcolm Pasley), biographical chronology, bibliography. Trade paperback, very light shelf wear and rubbing along spine, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.