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

Cat.No: 225029

Price: $20.00

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 about David Balduin, oder: des müllers sohn

Cat.No: 191420

Price: $18.00

German workers in Chicago; a documentary history of working-class culture from 1850 to World War I. Edited by Harmut Keil and John B. Jentz, with the assistance of Klaus Ensslen, Hanns-Theodor Fu·, Christiane Harzig, and Heinz Ickstadt. Documents translated by Burt Weinshanker.

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...

Cat.No: 850

Price: $15.00

How it was in the community kitchen; Amana colonies, Amana, Iowa

Middle Amana, IA: Marie's Gift Shop, 1976. Pamphlet. [20p.], wraps, very good condition, 6x9 inches. More about How it was in the community kitchen; Amana colonies, Amana, Iowa

Cat.No: 236734

Price: $15.00

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

Cat.No: 223405

Price: $35.00

Neuer gemeinnütziger Pennsylvanischer Calender [three issues: 1885, 1897, 1899]

Lancaster, PA: Johann Bär’s Söhnen, 1885-99. Three issues of the slender annual publication, a variety of farmer’s almanac for the German-speaking population of Pennsylvania. Minor edge-chipping, toned pages. More about Neuer gemeinnütziger Pennsylvanischer Calender [three issues: 1885, 1897, 1899]

Cat.No: 205020

Price: $20.00

Solidarity. Vol. 35 no. 4 (April 1940)

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

Price: $25.00

Stories of My Life

Alexander, Eleanor E.

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 about Stories of My Life

Cat.No: 221101

Price: $20.00

Karl Baumann (American, 1911 - 1984) Maxwell Galleries, Ltd.

[Baumann, Karl]

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

Price: $20.00

The Ephrata Cloisters, an annotated bibliography

Doll, Eugene E. and Anneliese M. Funke

Philadelphia: Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, 1944. 139p., wraps edge worn with some chipping along the spine. Bibliograhies on German American history, no. 3. More about The Ephrata Cloisters, an annotated bibliography

Cat.No: 132634

Price: $20.00

The kindergarten; A manual for the introduction of Froebel's system of primary education into public schools; and for the use of mothers. With 16 plates

Douai, Adolf

New York: E. Steiger, 1871. [iv], 136, [36p.], sixteen monochrome plates showing geometrical shapes on graph paper, first edition in worn red cloth boards, frayed spine ends, back cover shows long-ago damp damage with loss of sizing, but not musty; ex library; hinges are cracking but not yet loosened. Includes... More about The kindergarten; A manual for the introduction of Froebel's system of primary education into...

Cat.No: 155530

Price: $100.00

Ephrata, a history. Posthumously edited with an introduction by John Soseph Stoudt

Ernst, James E.

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

Price: $25.00

Kaleidoscope: selected prose, plays, aphorisms and political essays [signed]

Gabriel-Freeman, Hugo

Santa Barbara: Self-published by the author at Day & Night Publishing House, no copyright. Paperback. 350p., gift inscription and inscribed in German and English by the author as well as with a quote in German on dedication page in author's hand, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps... More about Kaleidoscope: selected prose, plays, aphorisms and political essays [signed]

Cat.No: 229364

Price: $25.00

Triumph of Will. Printer's boy to publisher: The remarkable story of German immigrant Henry Finnern

Gorman, Stuart [and] Joachim "Yogi" Reppmann

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

Price: $17.00

Germany -- hope or peril?

Hagelberg, Gerhard

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 about Germany -- hope or peril?

Cat.No: 100723

Price: $12.00

American Folk Medicine, A Symposium

Hand, Wayland D., editor

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

Price: $18.00

Der arme Teufel, Robert Reitzel Vom Vomärz zum Haymarket

Heider, Ulrike

Bühl-Moos: Elster Verlag, 1986. Paperback. 194p., wraps, very good condition. Text in German. More about Der arme Teufel, Robert Reitzel Vom Vomärz zum Haymarket

Cat.No: 195358

Price: $15.00

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

Heinzen, Karl

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

Price: $30.00

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.

Heinzen, Karl

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

Cat.No: 5618

Price: $45.00

The poison growth of Prussianism: 'oh, land of now, oh, land of then': address in auditorium Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January 13, 1918

Kahn, Otto H.

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

Price: $18.00

Dark mirror

Kanemoto, Lisa, Janet K. Long, essays, Robert MacDonald, editor

San Francisco: Custom and Limited Editions, 1997. [104p.] 9.5x12.25 inches, preface, introduction, illustrated with 42 duotones, very good first edition in dj. Autobiographical works, self-portraits, revealing the German-born San Francisco photographer's struggles with the Holocaust, her son's mental illnes, alcoholism and breast cancer. More about Dark mirror

Cat.No: 97056

Price: $25.00

Die Ursachen der Sozialen Unrast in Amerika. Dargestellt nach den offiziellen Berichten der Bundes-Industrie-Kommission. Herausgegeben von der Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Sozialistischen Partei der Vereinigten Staaten

Kottgen, Don F.

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

Price: $95.00

Upper California

Künzel, Heinrich, translated from the German by Anthony & max Knight, with an introduction by Carroll D. Hall

San Francisco: Designed and printed by Mallette Dean & James E. Beard for the Book Club of California, 1967. Hardcover. 62p., endpaper maps, woodcut decorations by Mallette Dean, lithos and reproductions by Herdell & Beard, fine first English language edition limited to 450 copies bound in brick cloth boards with... More about Upper California

Cat.No: 210980

Price: $30.00

Marxereien, Eseleien & [und] Der sanfte Heinrich; Artikel aus der "Freiheit" Ausgewählt, mit einer Einleitung und gelegentlich Anmerkungen vresehen von Heiner Becker

Most, John [Johann Joseph] and Heiner Becker

Wetzlar: Buchse der Pandora, 1985. Hardcover. 192p., very good condition. Text in German. More about Marxereien, Eseleien & [und] Der sanfte Heinrich; Artikel aus der "Freiheit"...

Cat.No: 155652

Price: $18.00

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

Müller, J.

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

Price: $20.00

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