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

Cat.No: 225029

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Hardcover. [xii], 427p., illus., very good condition in like dj. The working class in American history. More about German workers in Chicago; a documentary history of working-class culture from 1850 to World War...

Cat.No: 850

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

Cat.No: 223405

New York: Workmen's Benefit Fund of the United States of America, 1940. pp. 117-168, staplebound magazine, minor edgewear and soil to cover. English-German edition. More about Solidarity. Vol. 35 no. 4 (April 1940

Cat.No: 226043

San Francisco: Maxwell Galleries, Ltd., [1985]. 80p., 10x8 inches oblong, introduction, biography and appreciation of Baumann, bibliography, footnotes, errata slip, illustrated with color plate reproductions of the artworks, very good in original pictorial wraps. German-born San Francisco abstract-expressionist. More about Karl Baumann (American, 1911 - 1984) Maxwell Galleries, Ltd

Cat.No: 111287

Allentown, PA: The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, 1963. xxi, 354p., illus., original openweave white linen cloth with a slightly darkened spine. The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, vol. 25, 1961. More about Ephrata, a history. Posthumously edited with an introduction by John Soseph Stoudt

Cat.No: 133608

2009. 122p., illustrated from b&w period photography, a nicely-designed paperbound in fine shape. Finnern observed and reported on hostility to local Germans during the war years. More about Triumph of Will. Printer's boy to publisher: The remarkable story of German immigrant Henry Finnern

Cat.No: 215765

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 about American Folk Medicine, A Symposium

Cat.No: 225997

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

Cat.No: 149962

Milwaukee: no publisher, 1918. 40p., 4x6 inches, ex-library with stamps and tape-re-enforced spine, in original stapled wraps. Anti-German sentiments from a German-American at the end of WWI. More about The poison growth of Prussianism: 'oh, land of now, oh, land of then': address in auditorium...

Cat.No: 96077

Chicago: Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Socialist Partei der Ver. Staaten, 1916. Pamphlet. 64p., wraps, very good condition, 4.75x7 inches. Text in German. Sozialistische Arbeiter-Bibliothek, 7. More about Die Ursachen der Sozialen Unrast in Amerika. Dargestellt nach den offiziellen Berichten der...

Cat.No: 14252

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

Cat.No: 212931

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 about Ulrike Palmbach essay by Lilly Wei

Cat.No: 172187