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Das Goethe-Schiller Denkmal in San Francisco, California. Erinnerungen an den "Deutschen Tag" der...

Das Goethe-Schiller Denkmal in San Francisco, California. Erinnerungen an den "Deutschen Tag" der California Midwinter International Exposition 1894, an das "Goethe-Schiller Fest" 1895 und an die "Enthullung des Denkmals" im Golden Gate Park 1901

San Francisco: Druck von C. Leidecker & Co, 1901-02. Hardcover. [116]p., period illustrations scattered throughout, glossy alkaline paperstock, German [or German-style] presswork and binding, hardbound in 10x6.5 inch skyblue cloth boards gilt, panelled in blind. A nice-looking copy with these faults: boards slightly sprung; general mild edgewear to boards but..... More

Cat.No: 225029

Price: $20.00

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David Balduin, oder: des müllers sohn

David Balduin, oder: des müllers sohn

New York: Amerikanischen Traktat-Gesellschaft [American Tract Society], 1833. 20p. (including cover), the cover loose but intact, save a split up the lower portion of the spine. No. 81. The story of a Long Island man misled into infidelity, and his restoration of faith, rendered in German for an immigrant audience..... More

Cat.No: 191420

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Lieb Vaterland. Zum besten der Verwundeken, Witwen und Waisen gewidmet The Hansen Company,...

Lieb Vaterland. Zum besten der Verwundeken, Witwen und Waisen gewidmet The Hansen Company, Kunstdruckerei, San Francisco. Ziechnungen von L.C. Chaponot. Gravierungen von California Photo Eng. Co. Vollbild von D. Blakiston

San Francisco: The Hansen Company, 1916. Sheet_music. Unpaginated, about [11]p., printed exclusively in German on alkaline stock staplebound in 14x11 inch plain printed glossy wraps. Illustrated within by a fine color-litho titlepage celebrating German soldiery ("Gott mit Uns 1916"), a fullpage b&w watercolor of soldaten at prayer, and rubricated cartouche..... More

Cat.No: 223405

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Stories of My Life. Eleanor E. Alexander

Stories of My Life

San Francisco: Judah L. Magnes Museum, 1986. 131p., illustrated with weakly reproduced b&w family snapshots, softbound in 11x8.5 inch buff wraps decorated with an early portrait of author ("With my doll. Berlin, 1918"). Slight edgewear, cover bears a faint sticker shadow, entirely clean within, a very good copy. Eleanor married..... More

Cat.No: 221101

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Germany -- hope or peril? Gerhard Hagelberg

Germany -- hope or peril?

New York: The German-American, 1952. 32p., staplebound pamphlet, very good but for bookseller's rubberstamp on back cover. Issued by pro-East German organization in the US, affiliated with Communist Party. More

Cat.No: 100723

Price: $12.00

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American Folk Medicine, A Symposium. Wayland D. Hand

American Folk Medicine, A Symposium

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. Hardcover. viii, 347p., has a few diagrammatic illustration in text, first edition cloth boards in dust jacket. Jacket is a little edgeworn with rubbing and a short closed tear, a very good copy inscribed and signed as "Wayland" in 1979. "North Americans" include "Central..... More

Cat.No: 225997

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Sechs Briefe an einem frommen Mann, nebst einem Forwort an einen Jesuiten und einem Nachwort an...

Sechs Briefe an einem frommen Mann, nebst einem Forwort an einen Jesuiten und einem Nachwort an einen 'Humbuger.' Siebente Auflage

Milwaukee, WI: Freidenker Publishing Co., 1885. 87p., paper slightly browned, period half-cloth over marbled boards (probably an old re-casing), spine label eroded. Karl Peter Heinzen, 1809-1880, a German-born journalist and revolutionary writer, arrived in America mid-century, where he founded several radical, but short-lived papers. Abolition was one cause he could..... More

Cat.No: 149962

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Six letters to a pious man. With an introductory address to a Jesuit, and a supplementary one to...

Six letters to a pious man. With an introductory address to a Jesuit, and a supplementary one to a humbugger. Translated from the German, by an American lady.

Indianapolis, Ind. Association for the Diffusion of Radical Principles, 1869. Hardcover. 65p., rebound neatly in cloth-backed boards with front and rear wraps laid down expertly on the covers, clean library book plate on inside of front cover. Karl Peter Heinzen, 1809-1880, a German-born journalist and revolutionary writer, arrived in America..... More

Cat.No: 5618

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Dark mirror. Lisa Kanemoto, Robert MacDonald, essays, Janet K. Long

Dark mirror

San Francisco: Custom and Limited Editions, 1997. [104p.] 9.5x12.25 inches, preface, introduction, illustrated with 42 duotones, work that is technically and emotionally very successful. An excellent copy in dust jacket. Autobiographical works, self-portraits, revealing the German-born San Francisco photographer's struggles with the Holocaust, her son's mental illnes, alcoholism and breast..... More

Cat.No: 97056

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The Social Monster: a paper on Communism and Anarchism & The Beast of Property: the curse of the...

The Social Monster: a paper on Communism and Anarchism & The Beast of Property: the curse of the world which defeat's the people's emancipation

Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 2007. Pamphlet. 31p., 5.5x8.5 inches, staplebound pamphlets, very good. "For the first time in over a century, the full text of Johann Most's insurrectionary pamphlets, The Social Monster and the Beast of Property, is once again available. These two essays provide a valuable glimpse into..... More

Cat.No: 243392

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California, Land of Gold or Stay at home and work hard. a short description of California and the...

California, Land of Gold or Stay at home and work hard. a short description of California and the dangers which threaten the immigrant along with the story of the sad fate of a German immigrant

San Francisco: designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy for The Book Club of California, 1970. Hardcover. 92p., 5.25x7 inches, red ornamental rules, reproductions of six illustrations from the original edition, unopened pages, fine first edition thus limited to 450 copies bound in tan cloth and gilt titles on..... More

Cat.No: 212931

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The Americans. Hugo Munsterberg

The Americans

Boston: McClure, Phillips & Company, 1904. xiv, 611p., very good in green boards, spine ends rubbed. German-American psychologist author offering a critique of American culture, social traits, politics, etc. More

Cat.No: 178041

Price: $14.00

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Germania / Schwestern Loge No. 6, ODHS / New Ulm, Minn. [badge with ribbon]. ODHS, The Order of...

Germania / Schwestern Loge No. 6, ODHS / New Ulm, Minn. [badge with ribbon]

New Ulm: ODHS, mfg. by Whitehead and Hoag in Newark, NJ, n.d. Dangling pendant suspended from a yellow ribbon attached at the top, six inches long including tassels. The black ribbon used for backing is an “In Memoriam” issue from the same branch. Paper label on the interior between the..... More

Cat.No: 246580

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Ulrike Palmbach essay by Lilly Wei. Ulrike Palmbach

Ulrike Palmbach essay by Lilly Wei

San Francisco: Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 2005. 20p., vignette and fullpage color exhibit photography and a nice sepia of the artist at work, staplebound unprinted 8.2x11 inch oblong wraps in a color cardstock wrap-around photo dj; a very good copy except for a bookseller's titlepage jottings, pencil but unerasible. More

Cat.No: 172187

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