Biermann Berthold Editor (5 results)

Hard. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: New Directions, 1949. 8vo., xxii+426pp., illustrated. Ex-library with label on spine, else very good.

Hardcovers. Condition: Very Good. Apparent First. --------------Gray cloth, 8 1/4" tall.- - -VERY GOOD CONDITION- - dust jacket worn, but with original $5.00 price on the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. cloth hard cover thick 8vo.illustrations.424 ages.very good copy in very good dust jacket.Goeth,s Letters to Friends and family.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Small lower dust jacket spine chip. In Mylar cover. Includes letters by Goethe as well as firends and relatives, never hitherto published. Illustrated with engravings. Binding is cloth boards.

blue full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. faint smudge on bottom edge. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in good cond. missing pieces along the flap edges, corners, spine top & bottom, minor soiling & wrinkling, not price clipped. old bookshop sticker bottom front flap inside. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (nap). xxii+426p. 32 b&w illustrations. index. memoirs. autobiography. philosophy. german romanticism. sturm und drang. history of science. german literature. philosophy. ~ The whole Western world is honoring this year the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In America the Goethe Bi~Centennial Foundation is sponsoring a new edition of Goethe's works, and a Goethe Festival is being held in Aspen, Colorado. One of New Directions' contributions to the Goethe celebration is this volume~an intimate portrait of Goethe the man and the world he lived in. Goethe was a fabulous character. His range of interests and his vitality were enormous; his life was exceptionally complete. Many of his ideas were far ahead of his time and are still influential today. And, of course, he ranks with Shakespeare and Dante as a giant of world literature. In Goethe's World, Berthold Biermann, journalist and lifelong student of Goethe, has brought together significant selections from the great man's own autobiographical writings, records of conversations left by people who knew him, and excerpts from letters and diaries of the period. Many of these documents have never before been translated into English. Together they present a unique biography of a genius and his environment~readable and entertaining, but accurate. Mr. Biermann has given particular attention to the Americans who knew Goethe or corresponded with him. Goethe's World is richly illustrated. There are reproductions of the best portraits of Goethe and of many of his friends, of his own drawings and of scenes in his life story. And Mr. Biermann has written introductions to each selection and prepared thumbnail bio raphies of the principal figures mentioned. …