Stein Kurt M Kms (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. DJ has a creased tear to the front upper edge, some tiny creased tears, a few chips, and is now in a mylar cover. DJ spine is browned. ; Poems in German, some other contents in English.

hardcover. first edition. Duodecimo 123pp. Collection of humorous verse in a hybrid English/German doggerel. #00108. very good: bright boards, slightly bumped corners, foxing on front endpapers, text clean, binding tight, previous owner's name on FFEP. good: closed tear top front, some chipping, price clipped, faded/toned. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Introduction by Richard Atwater. 103pp. Introduction text in English. Poem text in a form of German dialect. Edges lightly rubbed, near fine in a very good age-toned dust jacket with tears and chips along the extremities. Humorous poems in an amusing German dialect.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 103 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: Fine/na (missing). "Copyright 1930 Covici, Friede, Inc.". Text in "German immigrant"/"Germlish"; a collection of humorous poetry. Scarce in this condition. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA.

First edition. 8vo. Original cloth with dust jacket. Fine copy in very near fine dust jacket, an unusually nice and fresh example. A review copy with the review slip tipped in at the left edge of the front free endpaper. Humorous poems in Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, mixing German and English vocabulary while following German grammatical rules; the effect is like the bandmaster's song in Mel Brooks' The Producers.…

8°, 103 Seiten. Orig.Leinen mit Kopffarbschnitt. Verballhornung der Sprache der Deutschamerikaner. - Vorderdeckel fleckig.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition. Signed by KMS on half title with warm, lengthy inscription, a poem in English, "A clever line for Millie? Well, / I wish I knew just how to treat her. / I'd like to write a foot of verse, / But can't think of a Millimeter. [signed] K.M.S." and then underneath "For Millie Metzurlberg [?] / April Fools Day 1932 / and that goes for John, too." 123 pp. Orange cloth lettered in maroon. Very Good with toned and slightly frayed head, in rubbed and chipped dust jacket, split mended on verso with archival mending tissue, Fair. The author was a humorous poet writing in Chicago, "employing a form of dialect poetry that mixed German words and grammatical structure with English loan words and idiomatic phrases," according to writer and librarian Kevin Kurdylo in a brief article on KMS. He was also a member of the Cliff Dwellers Club. Signed.…