Collection: German Lit in Translation

NY: New Directions, 1996. First edition. 237pp; illus. 8vo; gray boards backed with blue cloth; silver spine titles. Mild foxing to textblock top and fore-edge. Very good (+) in a like jacket, unclipped, with moderate fading to spine. First American edition of Sebald's first novel... More

NY: Ecco, 2009. First edition (full number line on copyright page). Ix, 306pp.; 8vo; mottled tan papered boards; dust jacket. Textblock edges moderately toned (inferior paperstock); light bumping to spine ends. Near fine in a fine, unclipped jacket. First American edition of the German director's... More

First English-language edition of the debut novel by Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942), originally published in 1906. Translated from the German by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser. NY: Pantheon Books, 1955. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. Gray cloth; yellow spine titles; dust jacket.... More

First English language edition of the Austrian Jewish writer's final novel, originally published in 1938, a sequel of sorts to his earlier Radetzky March.NY: The Overlook Press, 1984. Translated by John Hoare. First edition. Octavo (8.25 x 5.75 in.); 157pp.; blue papered boards backed with... More

An attractive copy of this hansomely produced volume of these "unequaled tales of the fabulous, the grotesque, and the supernatural." Edited (and presumably translated) by Christopher Lazare. Illustrated by Richard Linder, with many plates rendered in full color. NY: A.A. Wyn, 1946. First edition. Quarto... More

First printing of this modernist high point, an evocative reimagining of the final hours in the life of the Roman poet Virgil. This English-language translation by Jean Star Untermeyer preceded by a year the publication of the German edition. NY: Pantheon Books, 1945. First edition.... More

First English-language printing of the German writer's debut novel, translated by Ursule Molinaro.Octavo (8.25 x 5.75 in.); 240pp.; marbled green boards backed with black cloth, in dust jacket. Moderate toning to the edges of the textblock, a touch of sunning to the cloth at head... More

London: Faber and Faber, 1961. 8vo. 232pp. First edition. Red cloth, gilt spine titles. Light shelfwear at spine ends and tips, light toning to edges of textblock, bookseller stamp on front pastedown, else very good (+). Unclipped very good (-) jacket shows moderate edgewear and soiling,... More