1. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von.

Faust – Background and Sources, The Author on The Drama, Contemporary Reactions, Modern Criticism.

6th Edition. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1976. 8°. XI, 626 pages, including Bibliography. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes, with some of his underlinings and fine markings (pencil only). A Norton Critical Edition.

2. Grass, Günter.

The Call of the Toad. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.

First English language edition. London, Secker & Warburg, 1992. 23 cm. 248 pages. Illustrations in black and white, including photograph of author on back of dustjacket. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition first english langauge edition with only very minor signs of external wear.

3. [Kredel, Fritz] Raspe, Rudolf Erich.

The Singular Adventures of Baron Munchausen. A Definitive text. Edited, with an Introduction, by John Carswell and illustrated by Fritz Kredel.

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1952. 25cm. XLI,175 pages. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout in colour. Original hardcover in protective covering (Mylar). Lower spine missing. Otherwise excellent.

4. Lind, Jakov.

Numbers.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1972. Octavo. 172 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. First British edition of the second part of his autobiography. Inscribed / signed by Jakov Lind.

5. Lind, Jakov / [Harold Brodkey Association].

The Inventor.

New York, Braziller, 1988. Octavo. 144 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. First edition of this work composed in English. Inscribed / signed by Lind to American novelist Harold Brodkey.

6. [Poems of Heine / The 19th century Emotion] – Heine, Heinrich.

Poems of Heinrich Heine. Selected and Translated, with an Introduction, by Louis Untermeyer and Illustrated by Fritz Kredel.

New York, The Heritage Press, 1957. Large Octavo. LII, 297 pages with Illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

7. [100 Years Buddenbrooks in America] Mann, Thomas.

Buddenbrooks. [First American Edition in stunning condition with an amazing, signed Letter by Thomas Mann, thanking an admirer for reflecting on reading his masterpiece “Buddenbrooks”. Signed on 21st of June 1940, on personalized stationery of Thomas Mann from Princeton, New Jersey, Mann wrote: “Thank you for writing to me and for telling me that you liked ‘Buddenbrooks’ when you read it recently at Colby College. It gave me pleasure, too, to know that you heard my daughter Erika lecture and had ‘thoroughly enjoyed’ yourself. With all good wishes, yours sincerely. Thomas Mann” ]. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter [American Translator Mrs. Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter].

Two Volumes (complete set). New York, Knopf, 1924. Octavo. 389, 359 pages. Original Hardcover with the very rare, original dustjackets in breathtaking condition (now in protective collector’s Mylar). Unusually Fine condition with the meaningful letter by Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann.