Poellnitz, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. Light wear to corners and spine tips. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. NEW Hardcover in a GOOD+ Dust Jacket 1967 1st Edition/1st Printing . Dust Jacket is wrapped in clear mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A slim volume of inspirational poetry by Donalda von Poellnitz. Although inspired by her Christian Science beliefs, anyone seeking connection to a "higher power" might enjoy this. Slight corner bumping and shelf-wear to spine. Tight in boards. Inscription by author. Inscribed by Author(s).

XII (Preface), 394; 1 blank, 382, 16 pages 'Supplement, ou Fautes à corriger'; foretitles, titlepages and subtitlepages are included in the pagination. - Richly gilt half-leather binding over 5 slightly raised bands with gilt titles and volume-number on red and black spinelabels, all edges red; 8vo.(ca. 16 x 11 x 5,5 cm). *** [Nochmals erweiterter SOMMER-VERKAUF bis Donnerstag, den 07.08.2025 / Expanded SUMMER-SALE until Thursday, August 07, 2025: um über 40% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of over 40%; ursprünglicher Preis / originally EUR 46,50] --- FIRST EDITION (preceeding the first German of the same year), RARE CONTEMPORARILY DECORATIVELY (yet damaged*) BOUND ORIGINAL; [4 parts in] 2 VOLUMES COMPLETE. --- Binding somehwat-, corners stronger-, sharp-corners and bottom of spine strongly rubbed; upper third and bottom of joints slightly split; *) top of spine lacks almost 1-cm of leather, upper red spinelabel lacks right half; front flyleaf with large upper-corner-cutout (apparently to remove an ownership inscription of which a smallest trace remained) and with large pencil end-of-19th-century ownership-name 'Backschat'(Potsdam/Brandenburg regional historian); very first and very last pages slightly (inbetween only minimally) foxy, bottom of first pages with small spot; inner rear-panel with short manuscript note of the period ''(Gef. Rieth dü-Bois)[or so] (u) / ++ / A.a.38.''; else in best condition. --- Pöllnitz was a prussian writer and adventurer from a thuringian noble family. He spend his youth as playmate of later prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm [I] and - after a colourful life-on-the-go - his old age at the court of his (Friedrich's) son and successor Friedrich II 'der Große'.

Erste Ausgabe. - Papier im ob. Bereich etwas stockfl., sonst gut erhalten. - 36 S. - Unbe-/unaufgeschnitten. - Orig.-Karton.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Contemporary plain boards, later reback, preserving original endpapers, title page printed in red, evenly browned. Engraved bookplate of Max Fabrice to front endpaper, later bookplate of Robert Hayhurst to flyleaf verso, early booklabel Schlossgotlieben b. Taegerweilen im Thurgau, Schweiz, small stamp of a coronet to title page, manuscript page in German to front, one page notes in French in manuscript to rear. Pollnitz was an unscrupulous German adventurer, who wrote various accounts of his travels, often unreliable. La Saxe Galante is an account of the love life of Augustus the Strong, the elector of Saxony and King of Poland, plagiarised from la Princesse de Cleves.

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good binding. First Edition. First Edition of Karl Ludwig of Poellnitz' La Saxe Galante, published anonymously. An account of the life of the voracious August II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, particularly his love life and numerous illegitimate children. Engraved device of Hermes on the title page. Minor soiling and writing in pencil to the endpapers; some loss and wear to the binding, repaired by a conservator. Full leather, with raised bands. Very Good binding.