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A board book edition in very good condition, published by Ravensburger (Ravensburg, Germany), 2000. Text by Rosemarie Künzler-Behncke, illustrated by Marlis Scharff-Kniemeyer. The boards are square and free of severe creasing, with light shelf wear to the edges. The binding is tight and like new, the pages are clean and unmarked. A beautiful copy of this German-language bedtime story collection for young children, from a private library.

A German hardcover edition in very good condition. Crimson boards are clean, square, and bright, with a black and gold spine label. Dust jacket present and in good condition, internally, light staining to the inner margins near the spine from adhesive aging. The pages are bright and free of marks throughout. A 1974 Parkland Verlag Stuttgart licensed reprint (Lizenzausgabe from Transitbooks AG Zurich) of the complete Volksmärchen der Deutschen, following the text of the 1782-86 edition and reproducing the illustrations from the 1842 edition. Johann Karl August Musäus was a Weimar schoolmaster and early collector of German folk tales whose five-volume work predated the Brothers Grimm and was among the most purchased books of the late 18th century. Of the four illustrators credited, Ludwig Richter is the most widely regarded German illustrator of the mid-19th century. He produced woodcuts for Grimm editions and illustrated books in a detailed Romantic style that became the visual standard for German fairy tale. His work for the 1842 Musäus edition is among his most celebrated. Parkland Verlag Stuttgart were known for well-produced hardcover reprints of German classics in their Klassikerbibliothek series.

A softcover copy in very good condition, text in German. Light shelf wear is present to the covers, with no creasing around the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout, with light tanning consistent with the book's age. Rowohlt paperback edition, licensed from edition spangenberg, 1990. Klaus Mann, eldest son of Thomas Mann, wrote Mephisto: Roman einer Karriere in 1936 while living in exile. The novel follows the actor Hendrik Höfgen as he trades principle for advancement under the rising regime. This edition's cover features photography of Klaus-Maria Brandauer from István Szabó's 1981 film adaptation, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

A softcover copy in fine condition. No creasing to the spine. Pages and boards are clean and unmarked throughout. Die Vermessung der Welt von Daniel Kehlmann. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg, 2008. In deutscher Sprache. A fictionalised double portrait of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, tracing their parallel obsessions with measuring and understanding the world. One of the most successful German novels. Winner of the Kleist Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize. Daniel Kehlmann lives in Berlin and New York.

A softcover copy in very good condition. No creasing to the spine or edges. A light mark to the front board. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Wir sind doch Schwestern von Anne Gesthuysen. Piper Verlag, München Zürich, 2014. Ungekürzte Taschenbuchausgabe (unabridged paperback edition). In deutscher Sprache. A German-language novel of three elderly sisters, memory, and the complex bonds of a shared lifetime. Gesthuysen's debut novel, it reached number one on the Spiegel bestseller list upon publication in 2012. Gesthuysen is a German journalist.

This is one of the most studied and widely read works of 20th-century German literature: Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Der Tod in Venedig. My copy is brand new, unread, with no creasing to the spine or covers. Fischer Taschenbuch, December 2021. Text based on the 1913 S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin edition, newly reviewed; unabridged edition, first published by Fischer Taschenbuch in Frankfurt am Main, July 1992. Copyright Katia Mann, 1967. Printed in Germany on FSC-certified paper. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 and is counted among the most significant German-language writers of the twentieth century, also the author of Buddenbrooks, Der Zauberberg, and Doktor Faustus. Set in Venice during a cholera outbreak in the summer of 1911, Der Tod in Venedig follows the celebrated writer Gustav von Aschenbach as a holiday taken to escape creative exhaustion becomes the site of an absorbing personal crisis. The novella draws extensively on classical mythology and the philosophy of Nietzsche, and has been the subject of extensive critical and scholarly study for over a century.