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193517042801New York: Harper & Brothers 1935. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Kredel Fritz. Octavo size 32 pp. A classic German children's tale originally published in 1845 with corresponding politically-incorrect racial allusions comprised of ten illustrated and rhymed stories mostly about children. Each has a clear moral that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way N.B. from Wiki. Mark Twain lived in Berlin Germany with his family in 1891; funds were tight and so as a Christmas present to his three children Twain translated this classic tale. The original illustrations were adapted by Fritz Kredel the result being this charming although somewhat scary as with many of the old folk tales children's book.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Cream colored pictoral paper boards with vignette of main character on the front publisher's device on title page three-page introduction by Mark Twain's daughter Clara Clemens full colour illustrations on every page; octavo size approximately 9" tall unpaginated with 16 leaves hand-set Lutetia type by the Golden Hind Press New Jersey printed and bound by the Haddon Craftsmen for the publisher. Dust jacket mirrors the binding the front flap shows the original $1.50 price summary of the book on both flaps publisher's ad for other Mark Twain children's books on the back panel.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is near fine the binding is clean the text block is strong and square it has solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and it is entirely free of prior owner markings; only condition issue we see is slight wear to head and tail of spine. The unclipped dust jacket is very good minus; it is entire but has overall soiling including a light circular old dampstain to the front panel minor overall edgewear with some larger chips out of the head and tail of the spine.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Johnson p. 109 for the first edition published by the Limited Editions Club in the same year 1935.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply; we are happy to ship at cost please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and the IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions we are here to help. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
193527312Chicago, Lakeside Press, 1935. Mit handkolorierter Titelvignette und 5 handkolorierten Illustrationen von Fritz Kredel, 31 x 23,5 cm, 1 gefalteter Quart-Bogen (= 4 Seiten)
19351256882447Marchbanks Press/Limited Editions Club 1935. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Limited edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. Slipcase missing. Minor wear to cover boards and spine. Copy number 1273. Beautifully illustrated. Binding is tight. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Marchbanks Press/Limited Editions Club hardcover
1930P-21732Philadelphia: Winston 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The first Winston edition of this German children's classic with all the original color illustrations of the German first edition in the original quarto-size red embossed cloth with black designs and titles. In a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a few small edge nicks but bright an clean and protected by a platic cover. Rare in the dust jacket. Winston hardcover
19351371961New York: Now printed for the first time for the members of the Limited Editions Club by the Marchbanks Press 1935. Limited edition 811/1500. Hardcover. Quarto 34 pages. In Good condition with a fair plus slipcase. Spine is blue with gold print. Slipcase is blue with wear to edges surface tears to front panel peripheral toning smudging/shelf wear light soiling. Within the slipcase the volume encased in portfolio blue cloth toning to spine light shelf wear. Boards quarter bound with red cloth to spine and decoratively illustration tan cloth to boards. Text block has light spotting to edges and endpapers pages are folded top down uncut leaves with printing on exposed sides. Includes color illustrations with some ink transfer to adjacent pages. Shelved in LECs.<br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1371961. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Now printed, for the first time, for the members of the Limited Editions Club by the Marchbanks Press hardcover
1930045134Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1930. Undated ca. 1930s. Text is presented in handwriting accompanied by sketches. Blue printed hardcover with glassine dustjacket. The book is in fine condition tight binding clean pages no names or other markings. The plain glassine dustjacket is age darkened and has a tiny chip to the lower edge of the rear panel. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
1935009639New York: Harper 1935. Much of spine loose; quarter of spine missing. First Edition Thus. Original Printed Boards. Fair. Illus. by Fritz Kredel. Harper Hardcover
194971340JOHN C WINSTON CO 1949-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Ownership stamp and bookplate to flyleaf in decorated boards. Light bump head of spine color illustrations throughout. No jacket. Please email for photos. JOHN C WINSTON CO hardcover
1930BOOKS061224IBoston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company 1930. HC. very good paper covered boards hardcover original tissue dj. ill. by Edward Waldo Emerson. The Pictures and Verses as Remembered by the Children of Ralph Waldo Emerson." unpaginated. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown
19403488The John C Winston Company. Philadelphia. No date Circa 1940's. DJ price $1.50. 1940 Pebbly dark red cloth with front cover title and illustrations embossed in gilt and black. Spine lettering and decoration in gilt. Unpaginated Some 96 pages. Book size about 10 by 8 inches. Stated on the title page: 'With Colored Illustrations After the Original Style'. Illustrated throughout in black/white and color with illustrations after the originals by Hoffmann. Some 37 rhymes in all including: Slovenly Peter; The Story of Cruel Frederick; The Story of the Inky Boys; The Story of Fidgety Philip; The Story of Flying Robert; Tom The Thief; Envious Minny; etc. Purchased with a collection of books from a single owner who had acquired them as a child in the early 1940's I am reasonably certain that this book dates from that period. In a maroon DJ with white lettering and a front cover border of white illustrations. Rear cover has a panel full of information about the book: 'This edition is a faithful copy of the original. Even the pleasing tones of the old hand-colored illustrations have been carefully reproduced so that these 'cheerful stories and funny pictures' can be enjoyed by children today as much as they were by their grandparents'. Book has only the slightest of wear; bit of darkening along the pastedown spine edges from aging of the glue used. DJ is a bit rubbed and edgeworn; small chips at top and bottom of spine. Lovely copy in the scarce priced DJ. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD- Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The John C Winston Company. Philadelphia. No date (Circa 1940's). DJ price $1.50. hardcover
1935MAY05D0072287Harper Brothers 1935. Hardcover. Acceptable. Third edition copyright 1935. Book has coloring on several pages. A couple of pages been taped. Faint smell of moth balls. Some spots on some of the pages. Illustrations are vibrant. Harper Brothers hardcover
19351379289New York: The Limited Editions Club 1935. Limited Edition #1007/1500. Hardcover. Quarto 34 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in quarter red leather and pictorial cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Housed in publisher's Good navy blue slip case moderately scuffed and torn along its edges and corners. Also protected by navy blue cloth folding enclosure with heavily worn gilt lettering to heavily faded spine. Minor wear to head and tail of book's spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Previous owner's photograph adhered to front free endpaper. Textblock uncut at top edge. Light age toning throughout textblock. Shelved in Case 14. 1379289. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
193575835New York:: Printed for The Limited Editions Club by The Marchbanks Press 1935. First edition; No. 498 of 1500 copies. publisher's quarter morocco and cloth illustrated in color in glassine wrapper and publisher's chemise and slipcase. A very fine copy. The gold-lettered spine of the chemise is slightly sunned and with a 1/2" split at the top of one joint; and there is slight use and sunning to the slipcase. Folio. With Dr. Hoffman's Illustrations Adapted from the Rare First Edition by Fritz Kredel. Translated into English jingles from the Original German of Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann by Mark Twain. Printed for The Limited Editions Club by The Marchbanks Press, hardcover
1995G155709408XI4N00Applewood Books 1995. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Applewood Books hardcover
1993145732Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag 1993. 520 Seiten. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
198026433PABEL/MOEWIG VERLAGSUNION 29/07/1980. 1. softcover. König von Atlantis: 15 Dorkh Der Atlan / Razamon / Grizzard / Konterfert / Seyfft / Man'Dhu'Ro PABEL/MOEWIG VERLAGSUNION paperback
199534885MOEWIG ARTHUR 21/11/1995. 1. softcover. Große Kosmische Rätsel: 4 Die Hamamesch; Das Cyrn Dow / Perry Rhodan / Myles Kantor / Piet Pieters / Cynan Dow MIT RISSZEICHNUNG! Computer: Schaubild der Levels 1 - 14! DIE GRÖßTE WELTRAUMSERIE! MOEWIG, ARTHUR paperback
1934521431934 Librairie Gallimard - coll. Détective - N° 30 - 1934 - petit in-8 broché - 249 pages.
1989790102PN. New. 1989. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1992251961PN. New. 1992. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1907136454Leipzig: Webels Verlag Dr. Abel & Born 1907. Octavo pp. iii-vii viii-xi xii-xiv 1 2-233 234: printer's imprint 235: blank 236: ad complete despite gap in pagination; preliminary gathering 6 leaves appears to be tipped in original tan wrappers printed in black all edges untrimmed. First edition. An important German utopian novel set in the future in which the Social Democrats have established a world state headquartered in Germany which has achieved significant technical progress longevity spaceships robots etc. Kretzmann The Pre-War German Utopian Novel 1890-1914 Ph.D. diss. Brown University May 1936 p. 212. Lexikon 1 p. 128. Bloch 2002 1505. Not in Nagl. Wrappers worn at edges spotting and dust soiling to same a sound good copy with clean nearly fine interior. #136454 Webels Verlag Dr. Abel & Born unknown books
1994075935Aedermannsdorf Switzerland: Trans Tech Publications 1994. Numerous figures and tables creasing to spine minor chipping to head and tail of spine and corners of soft cover light bump to head of spine minor soiling to page block previous owner's name on half-title page text clean and tight. First Edition. paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Trans Tech Publications Paperback
192024429Leipzig: W. Drugulin 1920. Vorzugsausgabe. Limited numbered edition. Hardcover. vg. 1/120. Elephant folio. VIII 1032pp. & 13 unnumbered illustration pages. Gold-stamped full green calf with gold lettering on cover and spine in original dust wrapper and sturdy paper-covered green clamshell box. Gold-lined raised bands. All deckled edges. Inside of front and back board stamped with double gold borders. Binding designed by R. Hadl handcrafted by A. Köllner. Elaborate deluxe edition of Hoffmann's novel "Signor Formica". E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776-1822 was a German author composer draftsman caricaturist jurist and music critic. He was one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. Signor Formica was first published in 1820 and a year later was included in the forth volume of Hoffmann's work "Serapionsbrüder." His few literary works are stories in which supernatural and sinister characters appear in people's lives revealing grotesque and often tragic sides in human nature. This deluxe edition is illustrated with original artwork by the Hungarian sculptor and etcher Richard Hadl. The illustrations consist of one original signed full-page pencil drawing as well as 12 full-page- and 7 in-text drawings in aquatinta-manier. Additional signature of illustrator on limitation page. "Dieses Buch wurde im Jahre neunzehnhundert und zwanzig in der Offizin W. Drugulin in Leipzig gedruckt. Die Auflage beträgt einhundert und zwanzig numerierte Exemplare auf van Gelder-Zonen-Bütten. Nach Beendigung des Druckes wurden die Platten vernichtet. Dieses Exemplar ist Nr. XXXIV und wurde gedruckt für Freiherrn Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild. Durchgesehen: signed Richard Hadl." Printed on handmade van Gelder-Zonen paper. Foreword by Hadl. Text in German. This particular copy was printed exclusively for Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild 1899-1987 of the famous Rothschild lineage. Goldschmidt-Rothschild was also well-known for his extensive rare book collection. Slip with information on binding laid-in as issued. Very slight rubbing on head and tail of spine. Minor creasing on spine of dust wrapper. Slight scuffing on clamshell box tiny tear on top section on spine of box. 10mm offsetting from interior leather-lining on outer edges of front and rear free endpaper. Dust wrapper and clamshell box protected by modern mylar. Exceptional copy in a stunning binding. Fine condition. Scarce with dust wrapper. W. Drugulin hardcover
199835451MOEWIG ARTHUR 10/11/1998. 1. softcover. Thoregon: 3 Der Sechste Bote Perry Rhodan / 1-Korrago / Cairol der Zweite / Trabzon Karett / Monkey / Tautmo Aagenfelt Computer: Roboter-Gefühle! Glossar: Aphilie / Baolin-Deltaraum / Buhrlos / Heliote / Kessel / KorraVir / Kosmonukleotid / Mahlstrom der Sterne / Meihtard / Skill Morgenstern! DIE GRÖßTE WELTRAUMSERIE! MOEWIG, ARTHUR paperback
197724323PABEL/MOEWIG VERLAGSUNION 30/09/1977. 1. softcover. König von Atlantis: 1 Das neue Atlantis Der Atlan / Razamon / Dölbe / Heinzkoor / Gryp / Sirkat EIN ROMAN AUS DER PERRY-RHODAN-REDAKTION PABEL/MOEWIG VERLAGSUNION paperback
