Search results for: 'GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von.'
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KAMPF, Arthur (illus.); GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust I und II.Berlin : 1925
Signed limited edition, number LXXX and LXXXII (respectively) of 150 copies printed on Van Gelder paper and signed by the illustrator Arthur Kampf (a further 500 copies were issued signed and numbered on Johann-Wilhelm-Butten paper). A very attractive edition of both parts of Faust in the original German. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 141854
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust.Paris : 1828
First edition of Gérard de Nerval's translation of Faust, subsequently used by Berlioz for his La Damnation de Faust. This is one of Nerval's earliest works, which he translated when still in his early twenties, and helped to establish his reputation. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 144339
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Herman and Dorothea.London : 1801
First edition in English, originally published in Taschenbuch für 1798 (Berlin: F. Vieweg dem älteren, issued in 1797). Goethe's epic poem "set against the background of the flight of French citizens across the Rhine and into Germany... strikes early twenty-first century readers as an almost trivial boy-meets-girl story rendered in heroic and Homeric... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 130614
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. The Works.London : 1903
A particularly handsomely bound set of Goethe's works. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 117225
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust.Hammersmith : November 1906 & June 1910
First Doves Press editions, each volume one of 25 copies on vellum.
The subject of Faust preoccupied Goethe for most of his life. He began a play on the theme as early as 1773, at first probably concentrated mainly on Faust's disgust with academic learning and on the shallowness of university life. He worked it up into the love tragedy (the so-called... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 145189
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (trans.); GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faustus: from the German.London : 1821
First edition in English of Goethe's Faust, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The book is most often met with in the publishers' reddish-brown paper boards, the flimsy backstrip having perished. This copy, however, has an attractive contemporary polished calf binding by the London binder Charles Murton, who Ramsden notes specialised in blind stamping.... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 134583
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POGANY, Willy (illus.); GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust.Boston : [1908]
First US edition, in the deluxe half morocco binding, much scarcer than the standard cloth binding. The UK edition was published the same year. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 145426
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POGANY, Willy (illus.); GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust.London : 1908
First Pogany edition, first impression, of Goethe's Faust in a superb Bayntun binding. The US edition was published the same year. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 147818
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (trans.); GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faustus: from the German.London : 1821
First edition in English of Goethe's Faust, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. When Faust, Part I first appeared in a finished form (1808) Coleridge expressed concern for the apparent immorality. Despite this, he briefly entertained a proposal in 1814 to translate the work, and returned to and completed the task in 1820-21. Coleridge denied that... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 132612
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CLARKE, Harry (illus.); GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust.London : 1927
Signed limited edition, number 910 of 1,000 copies signed by the artist. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 125665
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CLARKE, Harry (illus.); GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust.New York : [1925]
Signed limited edition, number 157 of 1,000 copies of the US issue signed by the artist. A further 1,000 signed copies were issued simultaneously in the UK. In a letter to Thomas Bodkin Clarke reported that his publisher regarded the illustrations in this work to be "full of stench and steaming horrors" (Bowe, p. 79). Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 130719
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von; NERVAL Gérard de (trans.) Faust.Paris : 1904
Limited edition, number 11 of 15 copies printed on japon with the plates in three states (printed in black on japon, bistre on chine, and blue). 15 copies were also printed on papier de chine, 40 on Watham paper, and 350 in a standard trade issue. Nerval's translation of Goethe's epic play was first published in 1828, Goethe commenting that "this French... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 129609
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(MOORE, Henry.) GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von, & André Gide (trans.) Prométhée.Paris : 1950-51
First and limited edition of Moore's first lithographic portfolio, this copy marked "H.C." (hors de commerce) and initialled by the publisher P. A. Nicaise, perhaps one of the copies réservées à des collaborateurs (reserved for collaborators); the edition was limited to 183 copies on vélin de chiffon à la forme des Papeteries du Marais.
"During... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 135517
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MOORE, Henry - GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von, & André Gide (trans.) Prométhée.Paris : 1950-51
First edition of Henry Moore's first illustrated book, number 60 of 183 copies only. "During a visit to Paris in 1949 Moore met French typographer and publisher Henri Jonquières, who suggested an illustrated book based on Goethe's Prometheus, an adaptation of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus. Moore made a total of eight lithographs for Prométhée, along... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 139173
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PASTERNAK, Boris, (trans.); Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Faust.[Leningrad] : 1953
First edition of Pasternak's Russian translation of Goethe's masterpiece, presentation copy inscribed to a close friend and fellow poet, "to one of the most interesting people and the best poets of the present times, Simon Chikovani, with love and devotion, B. Pasternak, 9 February 1954", on the front free endpaper.
Chikovani (1902-1966) was... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 132166
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SCHOEPFLIN, Johann Daniel. Opera Oratoria.Augsburg : 1769
First collected edition of these 23 "praises of Louis XV, uttered by Schoepflin as the Académie of Strasbourg's official speaker" (Hoefer), and which were first published between 1722 and 1746.
Johann Daniel Schöpflin (1694-1771) was a professor of history, rhetoric and law at the University of Strasbourg. His teaching attracted a plethora... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 132961
