Translated German First Edition (6 results)

Hardback, cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First UK Edition. Gnosis [Bible Key Words from Gerhard Kittel's Theologisches Worterbuch Zum Neuen Testament] by Rudolf Bultmann, translated from the German first edition, Stuttgart, 1933 and with additional notes by J. R. Coates. Hardback, 1952, first UK edition, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 67 pp. Contains original handwritten item receipt from B. H. Blackwell, Ltd., Oxford, from 1952.Octavo/8vo, measures around 5 1/4" by 8 1/8" by 1/4". No dust jacket. Red cloth binding, silver lettering to spine. A little marking and scuffing to binding but quite clean and colouring still vivid. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges and on hinges. Slightly bumped corners. Binding reasonably firm. Page edges a little browned, scuffed and slightly marked but reasonably clean overall. A little pencil marking to front pastedown, previous owner name to front free endpaper. The occasional mark to page surfaces but otherwise very clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information. n.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First of this edition. First Authorized German edition, 1921. This copy has been bound, paper over boards black linen spine with title handwritten on a paper label. Former owner's name in pen on endpaper and pencil on title page C. W. Van der Merwe. Original wrappers, removed, Paper is fragile, tanned and darkened at edges.

Hard Cover with Slipcase. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Hardcover with red leather spine with gilt lettering; boards covered in color pictorial cloth; 36 pages; color illustrations; limited edition 1393/1500. Book in fine condition: lower back corner is slightly bumped, otherwise like new. Book is with a hard portfolio cover bound in blue velvety cloth; in good condition only with spine faded and splitting along spine edge. Slipcase in good plus condition with some fading and modest wear. Might cost extra for international shipping. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. The first edition of Abraham Lincoln, Sein Leben und Seine öffentlichen Dienste, translated into German in 1865. The original work, Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Service, was also published in 1865 and was the first biography published (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, 189pp, [3]. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine, stamped in blind on cover. Frontispiece portrait of Lincoln with tissue cover. (Sabin 30158) (Monaghan 543) (Monaghan 3780). The first edition consisted of 5000 copies. Other imprints include Cleveland by O.P. Ritter, Boston by B.B. Russell & Company, and Chicago by S.S. Boyden.

8°. Titel mit gestochener Vignette, IV, 294; 330 SS. Pappband d. Zt. "Erste deutsche Ausgabe des Werkes "Philosophical rhapsodies. Fragments of Akbur of Betis", das englisch ab 1784 erschien (vgl. Lowndes 2545). Es enthält die philosophischen und gesellschaftskritischen Bemerkungen eines (fiktiven) orientalischen Reisenden. Im ersten Band werden z.B. der Atheismus und die Philosophie Spinozas besprochen. Eine Betrachung bemerkt die grosse Ähnlichkeit zwischen dem Menschen und dem Oran Utang etc. " - Vorsatz mit älterem privatem Sammlerstempel. Papierbedingt gebräunt oder etwas stockig, berieben.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. The first edition, first issue of the English translation of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, published in 1951 by New Directions. Translated from the German by Hilda Rosner. (illustrator). First English Edition, First Issue. Small octavo, [4], 153pp, [3]. Green cloth spine, mustard cloth-covered boards, photographic image printed on front cover. Top edge stained green. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Housed in the publisher's matching pictorial cloth slipcase with mounted publisher's label. This is the first issue, with no photographer credit on the copyright page, "printed at Vail-Ballou Press" on the copyright page, and the photograph printed only on the front panel of the slipcase. This New Directions edition was the first English-language edition, preceding the later 1951 trade edition and the 1964 gift edition. (Harrison, Newth & Candido, 31) (Garland 834) A fine example, appears unread. Originally published in German in 1922, Hesse's novel follows the spiritual journey of Siddhartha, a young Brahmin, through asceticism, worldly life, renunciation, and self-discovery.