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1992réf. 2353927Norwalk Connecticut: The Heritage Press 1992. Reissue. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 0x0x0. Steiner-Prag Hugo. Includes publisher’s slipcase and Sandglass insert. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1992 Hard Cover. xxvi 344 pp. Translated out of the German by various translators. Lithographs by Hugo Steiner-Prag with a prologue. "Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann January 24 1776 - June 25 1822 better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror a jurist composer music critic draftsman and caricaturist. He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach's famous but fictional opera The Tales of Hoffmann and the author of the novelette The Nutcracker and the Mouse King on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppelia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote. Hoffmann's stories were very influential during the 19th century and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. The Heritage Press hardcover books
1890réf. 010515New York : Charles Scribner's Sons 1890. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann 1776-1822 better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. A New Translation from the German with a Biographical Memoir by J.T. Bealby with Eleven Etchings by Wd. Lafauze. Second American Edition. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and rules to the spine. Two volume set is Very Good Plus top edge gilt. Volume I has small bumps fore edge of spine; prior owner business card attached at front paste down. Volume II has scrape to gilt top edge; prior owner business card to front paste down ; and a contemporary prior owner name address date in ink to front end paper. A few corners turned in each volume. Uncommon in such lovely condition. Contents include the Sand-Man The Cremona Violin The Golden Flower Pot and The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Source forJacques Offenbach's opera "The Tales of Hoffmann" which premiered in 1881. . Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover books
1990réf. 217720New York: Haworth 1990. Fine. First edition. Fine Like new. Haworth unknown books
1992réf. 182630New York: Harrington Park 1992. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback Very good in wrappers. Some staining on cover. Harrington Park unknown books
1740réf. 153Geneva: De Tournes 1740 -1753. First Editions throughout. Contemporary full limp vellum. Very good; some dustiness; vol. II of Opera with small ink stain on pp. 64-70; rear hinge of Supp. I split. Folio. A frontispiece and three plates in Supplement II part 2. This is the first edition of all parts of Hoffmann's works. It contains the two series of supplements published in 1749 and '53 that are often not present. The nine volumes contain virtually all that was known at the time about medicine and the medical applications of chemistry. Hoffmann's published work ranges over both areas where he made original contributions e.g. see Partington on Hoffmann and the development of modern chemistry. G-M #72; DSB VI 460; Ferguson I 409; Partington II 693; absent from Neville who had only later printings. De Tournes hardcover books
1754réf. M13008Genevae:: Apud fratres de Tournes 1754. 1754. Two parts in one. Folio. 24 x 35 cm. viii 871 1 pp. Collation: 4 A6-4D6. Half title title printed in red & black engraved title vignette Latin text printed predominantly in two columns engraved initials engraved head and tail pieces small woodcut fig. p.52; occasional minor stains some folds ownership signature Hermann . . . trimmed on title top edge. Original half calf over boards all edges red; heavily worn with chipped portions spine is mostly missing front joint reinforced with Kozo. Binding "as is" good internally. Bookplate of John G. Curtis Library of Columbia University. Rare. Second edition. "Hoffmann based his treatment on the use of sedatives tonics alternatives and evacuants according to the condition responsible for causing the disease. Apart from this system he was one of the premier practitioners of his day and one of the first to give good descriptions of appendicitis chlorosis rubella and convulsive asthma with dropsy." – Heirs of Hippocrates referring to the entire Opera. More description available on request. REFERENCES: The Dictionary of Eighteenth Century German Philosophers 3 vols. edited by Manfred Kuehn and Heiner Klemme London/New York: Continuum 2010; DSB VI pp. 458-461; Blake NLM lists editions from Geneva in 1740 1748 and 1761; Wellcome Library III p.285 2 vols. in 1. See: Garrison & Morton 72 for the complete 9 volumes published 1740-53; Justin E. H. Smith The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy 2006; Willius & Dry A History of the Heart and the Circulation pp. 77-78. Apud fratres de Tournes, 1754. hardcover books
1972réf. UHOFINT00MELFischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1972. Very Good. Hoffmann Gerhard. Interpretationen 12: Amerikanische Literatur des 20. Jahruhunderts Lyrik und Drama. Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1972. 309pp. 12mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag paperback books
1989réf. 309982Berlin: Albino Verlag 1989. Paperback. 197p. text in German very good first edition trade paperback original in red photo-pictorial wraps. Gay fiction poetry & essays. Albino Verlag paperback books
1987réf. 1409158Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann Verlag 1987. Hardcover. Quarto 143 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine silvery gray with black lettering. Exterior has slight wear including slight scuffing and minor edge wear. White paper band with English translation around dust jacket. Boards have very slight wear including light edge wear. Text block has slight wear including some foxing to the edges. Profusely illustrated. Gift inscription to the front end paper. Text in German. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Quarto and Folio Case. 1409158. FP New Rockville Stock. Julius Hoffmann Verlag hardcover books
1940réf. 8275Berlin: German Ministry of Propaganda 1940. First Edition presumed. Original Wraps. Very Good to Near Fine. First Edition presumed. Original Wraps. German text. Richly illustrated. Hoffmann was Hitler's personal photographer having visited & photographed Hitler while Hitler in Landsberg prison and remaining an important photographer for the Reich. Part of a series of 26 Hitler propoganda books issued by the German Third Reich from 1933 to 1940 with an additional 16 titles about Germany more broadly. Rather uncommon and quite scarce in clusters.a very nice start to a collection. Some show light shelf/edge wear one with a soft crease at the front one a small closed tear at spine most still have original display string else tight bright and unmarred. Color pictorial printed wraps. Each 2" x 1 3/4". 36pp. Illus. b/w plates. German Ministry of Propaganda unknown books
1981réf. 179239Grasberg: Mader 1981. Hardcover. VG light rubbing on boards interior clean and crisp. Navy binding with color illustration. 60 pp. Illustrated in B&W and color. German. A brief overview of the Art Nouveau movement in Darmstadt. Mader hardcover books
1925réf. 43546München: Heinrich Hoffmann 1925. Loose leaf. vg. Silver gelatin postcards 3 1/2 x 5 1/2". This collection of photo-postcards provide a vivid impression of the pageant on the occasion of the opening of the German Museum in Munich. The photographs show the various sections of the pageant representing a number of professions e.g. carpenters butchers bakers potters galziers textile merchants engineers female citizens of Munich and the elements fire water and air. Many of the sections include horses as well as cars floats and marching bands all photographed with the backdrop of the illustrious Munich architecture. The collection contains a portrait photograph of the German engineer and founder of the German Museum in Munich Oskar von Miller. The majority of the photographs are by the photographers Hoffmann and Spiesse often copied into the photos with numbering in white respectively stamped to the verso of the cards. Two of the postcards are stamped Photo-Atelier Hans Möller on verso. Postcards partly with light oxidation in margins slightly wavy and some with light bumps and minor stpots. Overall in very good condition. Heinrich Hoffmann unknown books
1890réf. 15103Frankfurt am Main: Literarische Anstait von Rutten & Loning 1890. With wood-engraved colored illustrations and text. Includes the extra leaf for the 100th edition of Wie der Struwwelpeter reprinted from Gartenlaube 1871 No. 46 with a portrait of Hoffmann. Original decorated wood engraved boards listing all the individual episodes on the front cover and publisher’s advertisements on the back cover. The 100th edition was published as a jubilee edition and all subsequent editions contain the additional leaf at the beginning. This is the famous group of stories of children who are not good do not listen to their parents and therefore suffer the results often drastic consequences of their cruel mischief. One story tells of a child who tortures animals receiving a deep bite another receives burns when playing with matches another is carried off in the wind while playing with an umbrella never to return. There are children who cut off a thumb from playing with scissors and another who refuses to eat his soup and starves to death. Each of these stories has been related to psychiatric conditions. Each story has its symbols for a variety of mental problems such as ADHD or hyperactivity syndrome. The boy who refuses to eat has been described as suffering from anorexia nervosa. Hoffmann was a Frankfurt doctor and psychiatrist. This book is one of the most successful German children’s books and has been translated into numerous languages. Literarische Anstait von Rutten & Loning unknown books
1937réf. 39388Berlin: Zeitgeschichte 1937. 106. bis 130. Tausend. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto. Unpaginated. 92pp. Stiff wraps in original attached photographic dust jacket showing Hitler in Berchtesgaden with his residence Berghof in the background. Profusely illustrated with 100 b/w reproductions of photographs by Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann 1885-1957. The photographs show Hitler mostly in private settings at the Berghof / Obersalzberg with Nazi officials workers admirers children traveling relaxing at a picnic giving autographs visiting Landsberg prison Karinhall as well as images of the exterior and interior of the Berghof. Between 1932 - 1941 Heinrich Hoffmann published several propaganda works such as this for the German public and for foreign countries to show how 'well liked' and 'popular' the Führer was in Germany at the time. Introduction by Wilhelm Brückner. From dj flap: "Professor Heinrich Hoffmann zeigt in diesem prächtigen Bildband den Führer wie ihn nur seine engsten Mitarbeiter sehen und erleben: abseits vom Alltag fern der lärmenden Welt in seiner ganzen reichen warmen Menschlichkeit und Güte. Stille Stunden mit Büchern zeigt dieses neue Werk einsame Spaziergänge in den bayerischen Bergen Stunden mit Klein und Groß allüberall in Deutschland vertraute Gespräche mit alten Kampfgefährten und im Zusammensein mit einzelnen Volksgenossen die nie rastende Hilfsbereitschaft des Führers.wieder bringt es eine Fülle schöner ergreifender Aufnahmen; wieder ist es von unschätzbarem dokumentarischen Wert." Very minor scuffing and creasing on DJ. Text and captions in German. Dust jacket in overall good wrappers and interior in very good condition. Zeitgeschichte unknown books
1955réf. 231879Burke 1955. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. First Edition First Printing. Dust jacket and book are in very good condition. Dust jacket has minor wear along the top edge jacket price not clipped. Red cloth boards. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Illustrated endpapers. xiii 256 pp. Burke hardcover books
1924réf. 26458Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company 1924. First edition. Very good plus. Scarce early 20th century American Struwwelpeter with bright and jaunty Walter Hayn illustrations. Uncommon 1920s American Struwwelpeter with English verses modeled after Hoffmann's righteous moral vignettes of merciless Justice visited upon careless and vicious children and additional embellishments on the theme of cruelty to animals. Contains the following verse titles: Jimmy Sliderlegs Slovenly Peter Cruel Frederick The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb The Story of Fidgety Philip The Story of Flying Robert Little Jacob Frank the Liar Tom the Thief Paul the Tormentor Simple Hans Idle Fritz Heedless Hugo Ned the Toy-Breaker and Prying Will. An appealing edition of these cautionary tales. 5.5'' x 4.25''. Original quarter red cloth with pictorial boards. Color paste-on mounted to front board. 127 1 pages. Color frontispiece and bright color illustrations facing each page of text "from the Original Designs by Walter Hayn." Light sunning and soil to boards and spine. Scattered light foxing and soil to pages; hinge just starting between pages 126 and 127. Henry Altemus Company unknown books
réf. 002700Frankfurt: Rutten & Loening Verlag. 63rd Printing. Hardcover Paper pastedown on boards. Very Good. N.d. circa mid-1920s. 4to. 32 pp. No printing nor page numbers on versos. Color illustration on every page accompanying the witty verse by the author of "Struwelpeter". Soiling on the boards. Leaves are age toned. Otherwise clean and tight. Rutten & Loening Verlag hardcover books
1967réf. 76892NY:: Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Illustrated by the author. English version by Jack Prelutsky. Stated first printing. Small patch of abrasion on front free endpaper else very good in a very good two closed edge tears on front panel dust jacket. . Macmillan, hardcover books
1995réf. UHOFSTR00drpDover 1995. Very Good. Hoffmann Heinrich. Struwwelpeter. NY: Dover 1995. 31pp. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed edges. Dover paperback books
1800réf. 198631Not Identified: Not Identified 1800. Paperback. AS IS Wraps are missing; pages are toned and heavily worn/chipped/scuffed/smudged; some pages are loose. Wraps are absent; 24 stapled sheets with color illustration. "Tales in verse about some naughty children and the fates that befall them when they misbehave" -- WorldCat. Contents include: Shock-headed Peter -- The story of cruel Frederick -- The dreadful story about Harriet and the matches -- The story of the inky boys -- The story of the man that went out shooting -- The story of little Suck-a-thumb -- The story of Augustus who would not have any soup -- The story of fidgety Philip -- The story of Johnny Head-in-the-air -- The story of flying Robert. Not Identified paperback books
1938réf. 39779Berlin: Zeitgeschichte-Verlag 1938. First edition 1st print 1. bis 50. Tausend. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto. 6pp Text; 56pp Photographic plates. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blind wrappers. First edition first print of this photo-book documenting the 29 days between Germany's annexation of Austria on March 12 1938 and the April 10 referendum crowning Hitler's achievement. The referendum question was: Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Reich that was enacted on 13 March 1938 and do you vote for the list of our leader Adolf Hitler The result was reported as 99.73% in favor with a 99.71% turnout. The 73 striking b/w photographic reproductions depict Hitler during several speeches given throughout Germany and Austria and starting in Königsberg on March 26 in which he launched the referendum campaign. The Fuehrer is also seen addressing crowds in Leipzig Berlin Hamburg Köln Frankfurt am Main Stuttgart München Graz Klagenfurt Innsbruck Salzburg and Linz. His last address on the matter was held on April 9 at the Nordwestbahnhof in Vienna. The photographs were taken by Heinrich Hoffmann Hitler's personal photographer and they show the Fuhrer being greeted by and talking to large and enthusiastic crowds. Moderate rubbing along edges of wrappers. Text and captions in German. Wrappers in overall good interior in very good condition. Zeitgeschichte-Verlag unknown books
1938réf. 47249Berlin: Zeitgeschichte-Verlag 1938. 151.-160. Tausend. Softcover. Very good condition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated stiff wraps with red and white lettering on cover protected by modern mylar. Documentation and propaganda publication relating to the annexation of the Sudetenland the Northern mountainous region of Czechoslovakia after the Munich agreement of September 30 1938. Part of the large series of propaganda publications documenting Hitler's presence in various regions and interactions with his people. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs provided by Heinrich Hoffmann Reichsbilderstatter/ Photographer of the NSDAP. Henlein was a leading Sudeten German politician who joined the Nazi party and SS after the annexation of the Sudetenland and was appointed Gauleiter of the Sudetenland. The photographs depict Konrad Henlein and Hitler Sudentendeutsche refugees heading for Germany the meetings between Hitler and Chamberlain Mussolini Daladier the signing of the agreement the invasion of the Sudetenland cheering German population in Sudetenland Photos of Hitler's visit to the region a Hitler speech construction of military installations and various photographs with Hitler and thankful Germans of the region. Text in German. Very light wear along edges of wraps. Zeitgeschichte-Verlag unknown books
1935réf. 1371961New 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. 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 books
1920réf. 011010Frankfurt am Main: Rutten & Loening Verlag 1920 26 pgs. 141-150 Tausend. Pictorial boards with some wear to extremities old marginal tape repair to first page a few marginal edge tears to the fragile paper. Verse for a juvenile audience with color illustrations engraved by Graeff-Engel after Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann best known for Struwwelpeter Slovenly Peter. . Later Printing. Pictorial Boards. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Dr Heinrich Hoffmann. 4to. Rutten & Loening Verlag unknown books
1905réf. 17071607Frankfurt: Rutten & Loening 1905. Cardboard covers. Good . 15th edition quarto size 24 pp. all text in German. Heinrich Hoffmann 1809-1894 although a successful psychiatrist is remembered primarily for his children's stories - Struwwelpeter his first book being one of the most famous. While the stories may strike us today as somewhat cruel or overly moral Herr Hoffmann's contemporaries saw the world differently than we and they enjoyed their humour; the stories were so popular they were regularly reprinted and translated into many different languages. This work Prinz Grunewald was his last children's book with delightful illustrations whose colours remain bright and vibrant. ___DESCRIPTION: Pictoral cardboard covers with a blue cloth spine 15th edition printed at the top of the front board bright red endpapers text block stapled to boards not sewn pictorial title page each page printed on the recto only and each page with both text and illustrations all text in old German Fraktur; quarto size approximately 10.25" tall 24 printed pages. ___CONDITION: Almost very good overall with a solid binding the binding and pages toned with age but clean and the colour illustrations remarkably bright and fresh; the cloth spine is sunned with some wear to both the head and tail minor overall edgewear the title and final pages were stapled to both the boards and the text block which has resulted over time with very small tears at the staples and there is a child's name written on the rear pastedown. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions we are here to help. Rutten & Loening unknown books
