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Schwarz, Georg. Almost Forgotten Germany. Seizin Press and Constable, Deya Majorca and London, 1936.
Price: US$445.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Translated by Laura Riding and Robert Graves. Spot staining to front board, light wear to corners, spine ends and edges, closed edges browned, list of publishers' books to fep, frontispiece - black/white photograph of author, light spotting to title page, pp clean, text clear to read, binding firm. Size: 12mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$508.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 278. 19 x 12 cm. Frontis photo portrait. Translated from the German by Laura Riding and Robert Graves. Original publisher's light bown cloth lettered black at the spine. Inside flap of d/w states "A retired art-dealer, now expatriated, tells the story of his varied early life in what has come to be thought of as 'Old Germany'. At one time he was in the anomalous position of beinfg the only Jewish estate owner in East Prussia. Later he was a portrait painter in Munich when Impressionism was just beginningto turn German culture upside down. The book is richly anecdotal:turns of agricultural fortune, chamber-music episodes, playing cards withvon Hindenberg.Bach to von Mackensen, Kaiser Wilhelm as a tourist prince in Norway 'my uncle Pachter' who introduced Oriental Art to Berlin,various comedies of art dealing. Clean very good copy with slight mottling to lower edges, in near very good d/w with a little surface soiling and very slight marking at white spine and rear, tiny chip at head of spine and slight rubbing at edges. No inscriptions, not price-clipped. Attractive pictorial jacket wuth map of Germany and cloaked figure holding a palette and a tankard with title and author in Gothic script. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$1272.02 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of this memoir by a German art-dealer who fled Nazi Germany and became Graves's neighbour in Majorca, "a charming, individual and informative book which never received its due" (Seymour-Smith, p. 245). Graves and Riding worked from a literary rendering prepared by Kenneth Gay (born Karl Goldschmidt), Graves's personal secretary, companion and editor on Majorca. Higginson, A45. Martin Seymour-Smith, Robert Graves: His Life and Works, Bloomsbury, 1995. Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. With photographic frontispiece. Slight bump to foot of spine, a little rubbing to extremities, top edge a touch foxed, else clean. A near-fine copy, in the bright jacket, price-clipped, spine panel toned, spine ends nicked and creased, small chips to one tip, else a sharp, bright example.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Georg Schwarz. Almost Forgotten Germany. The Seizin Press/Constable & Co., Ltd., London, 1936.
Price: US$3168.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: po message and date 2nd June 1942 on first blank page; full b/w photo frontispiece; viii; pp. 278; white endpapers; looks unread; translated by Laura Riding and Robert Graves; investment copy; memoirs of a German art dealer forced to flee from Nazi persecution and the book could be considered as German exile literature; rare
Seller: Booksdoc, Russell, ON, Canada