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19996. Boor, Helmut de, 1891-. Die deutsche Literatur von Karl dem Grossen bis zum Beginn der Höfischen Dichtung, 770-1170. München: C.H. Beck, 1949, 268pp., very good brown cloth, previous owner's stamp, $12
Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart / von Helmut de Boor und Richard Newald . Bd. 1.


19993. Boor, Helmut de, 1891-. Die deutsche Literatur im späten Mittelalter: Zerfall und Neubeginn. Erster Teil: 1250-1350. München: C.H. Beck, 1962, 590pp., very good brown cloth, previous owner's stamp, $12
Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart . Bd. 3, Teil. 1. 1250-1350.


7874. Brenner, E. / Wilhelm Bortenschlager. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts. Wunsiedel: Leitner & Co., 1967, 17. neu bearbeitete Auflage, 374pp., PAPERBACK, good but paper browning, previous owner's bookplate, $6
.


18866. Demetz, Peter, 1922-. Die süße Anarchie. Deutsche Literatur seit 1945. Eine kritische Einführung. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Beate Paulus. Berlin: Propyläen, 1970, 303pp. 23 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth BUT neat pencil underlining on a few pages, previous owner's name, $12
Translation from the English: "Postwar German literature." Introductory chapters by country, then by author: Nelly Sachs, Johannes Bobrowski, Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, Helmut Heissenbüttel, Günter Kunert, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Wilhelm Lehmann, Fritz Hochwälder, Max Frisch, Peter Weiss, Peter Hacks, Rolf Hochhuth, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Wolfgang Koeppen, Gerd Gaiser, Alfred Andersch, Heinrich Böll, Martin Walser, Uwe Johnson, Günter Grass, Heimito von Doderer.


7849. Friedrich, Wolf-Hartmut / Walther Killy, Hrsg.. Literatur II. Two Volumes. Fr/M: Fischer Bücherei, 1968, 1969, 1969, , PAPERBACK, usable worn copies, a few minor ink marks, volume two glue cracked in middle, previous owner's bookplate, $6
Alphabetical lexikon of literary theory and history in two volumes. Erster Teil: Ahistorische Stile - Lyrik. Zweiter Teil: Manierismus - Zeitalter der Entdeckungen. Bibliographie. Register.


14379. Hatfield, Henry, 1912-. Modern German literature: the major figures in context. London, Edward Arnold, 1966, viii, 167pp. 20.5 cm, very good dust-jacket, a bit scuffed on front cover, very good woven green cloth, $28
Naturalism, Neo-Romantic tendencies, rebirth of the lyric, major novelists 1900-1918, expressionism, novel and novella 1918-1945, drama and lyric after WWI, the nightmare 1933-1945, partial recovery after 1945.


19413. Kayser, Wolfgang, et al. Deutsche Literatur in unserer Zeit. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1961, 3te Auflage, 162pp. 21 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, a few minor notations in ink on a couple of pages only, previous owner's name, $11
Die Kleine Vandenhoeck-Reihe, 73/74. Das literarische Leben der Gegenwart, von W. Kayser. - Die deutsche Lyrik der Gengenwart, von B. von Wiese. - Die Erzählkunst des 20. Jarhunderts und ihr geschichtlicher Sinn, von W. Emrich. - Das Drama der Gegenwart, von F. Martini. - Gegenwartsdichtung der deutschen Schweiz, von M. Wehrli. - Perspektiven österreichischer Gegenwartsdichtung, von F. Heer. "Die hier vereinigten sechs Beiträge sind als Vortragsmanuskripte enstanden. Gesprochen wurden sie an sechs aufeinanderfolgenden Abenden auf einer vom Niedersächsischen Kultusministerium veranstalteten literarischen Woche im Oktober 1958 in Hannover.".


32566. Kluge, Hermann, 1832-1914. Geschichte der deutschen National-Literatur : zum Gebrauche an höheren Unterrichtsanstalten und zum Selbststudium. Bearbeitet von Reinhold Besser und Otto Oertel. Altenburg S. A.: Druck und Verlag von Oskar Bonde, 1923, 52. Auflage, xvi, 288pp., good light blue 1/4 cloth with blue printed boards, spine faded and worn, paper browning but still usable, $12
First published in 1869.


20297. Kunisch, Hermann, Hrsg.. Kleines Handbuch der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur. 107 Autoren und ihr Werk in Einzeldarstellungen. Hrsg. von Hermann Kunisch. (Redaktion: Günther Erken und Herbert Wiesner.). München, Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, 1967, 1967, 586 p. 19 cm., very good small green cloth, $15
Selections from the author's Handbuch der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur. Handy reference work on major twentieth-century german-language authors.


8416. Kunisch, Hermann. Handbuch der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur. Bd. III: Bibliographie der Personalbibliographien von Herbert Wiesner et al. München: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, 1970, Zweite, verbesserte und erweiterte Ausgabe, 159pp., good green cloth, cover slightly faded at top, but with library gift stamp and deaccession blind-stamp, $20
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32622. Kurz, Heinrich, 1805-1873. Geschichte der deutschen Literatur, mit ausgewählten Stücken aus den Werken der vorzüglichsten Schriftsteller. Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1857-1859, Zweite Auflage, 867, 764, 841pp., three large volumes, with old dusty leather spine, spine of volume one detaching, some very heavy foxing in texts, but still good usable reading copies, should be rebound, previous owner's names and stamps, $85
Mit vielen nach den besten originalen und Zeichnungen ausgeführten Illustrationen in Holzschnitt. ALSO INCLUDED: Geschichte der deutschen Literatur von 1830 bis auf die Gegenwart, Bd. 4, 4te Auflage (Leipzig: Teubner, 1881), 997pp. (leather spine detaching, worn around edges).


19952. Lange, Victor, 1908-1996. Modern German literature: 1870-1940. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1945, xi, 223pp. 22 cm, fair gray cloth, but worn edges and spine and cover discolored, still sound copy, $12
.


13774. Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1882-1955. The spirit of modern German literature. Lectures delivered before the University of Wisconsin. New York, B. W. Huebsch, 1916, 6pp. l., 3-145pp. 20 cm, very good black half-cloth with green paper-covered boards, corners bruised, paper spine-label worn, previous owner's inscription, $19
With highest praise for Ricarda Huch's Recollections of Ludolf Ursleu (1893). American wartime reviewers were not pleased: "If Mr. Lewisohn had been content merely to interpret the egoism of modern German literature, one would have welcomed his attempt; he has, alas! thought fit to defend it without giving us the penetrating survey of it that we had a right to expect" (Springfield Republican 8 Feb. 1917).


8014. Mahrholz, Werner. Literaturgeschichte und Literaturwissenschaft. Durchgesehen und mit einem Nachwort von Franz Schultz. Leipzig: Kröner, 1932, 2te, erweiterte Auflage, 244pp., small blue cloth, with previous owner's name: Stanley Townsend (German professor in US), dated Chicago, 1936, and with his pencil notations scattered throughout, $7.5
An early history of histories of literature, with commentaries on Hettner, Scherer, Strich, Gundolf etc.


33754. Martini, Fritz. Deutsche Literaturgeschichte. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner, 1977, 17., erweiterte Auflage, vii, 727pp., dust-jacket with a few chips, lamination chipping, very small blue cloth, gift bookplate on front endpaper, $7
Kröners Taschenausgabe, Bd. 196. ISBN 3520196174


17485. Robertson, J. G.. A History of German Literature. Fourth Edition edited and revised by Edna Purdie. New York: British Book Centre, 1962, 702pp., worn dust-jacket, green cloth, previous owner's name, $10
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17571. Robertson, John George, 1867-1933. Outlines of the history of German literature. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1911, viii, 320pp., 20 cm, very good small green cloth, some minor pencil underlining scattered, previous owner's name: George Bennett, $15
.


3294. Röhl, Hans. Wörterbuch zur deutschen Literatur. Richmond: Johnson publishing company, 1931, 2., vollig neu bearb. und verm. aufl. [bearbeitet von Arpad Steiner], vii, [1], 279pp. 19 cm., very good small black cloth with gold titles and red frame, previous owner's name, $7.5
Durchgesehen und für die Vereinigten Staaten ergänzt von Arpad Steiner.


19463. Rösch, Herbert / Friedrich G. Hoffman. Grundlagen, Stile, Gestalten der deutschen Literatur. Eine geschichtliche Darstellung. Frankfurt a. M., Hirschgraben-Verg., 1968, 3te, verbesserte Auflage, 379pp., very good white 1/4 cloth, illustrated cover, previous owner's name, $10
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8988. Soergel, Albert / Hohoff, Curt. Dichtung und Dichter der Zeit. Vom Naturalismus bis zur Gegenwart. Düsseldorf: A. Bagel, 1964, 11.-15. Tausend der neuen Ausgabe, 2 vols. illus. 25 cm., 893, 893pp., dust-jacket worn around edges with a few chips and tears, very good aqua blue cloth, two large, heavily illustrated volumes, $35
The classic illustrated history of German literature.


32559. Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919. An anthology of German literature. Boston, D.C. Heath & Co., 1909, ix, 399pp., very good blue cloth but spine titles faded, cover lightly scuffed, previous owner's name, $7.5
Heath’s modern language series. German texts with brief introduction and notes in English but almost NO vocabulary assistance. Difficult texts, ending with Schiller.


20033. Weber, Dietrich, Hrsg.. Deutsche Literatur seit 1945. In Einzeldarstellungen. Hrsg. von Dietrich Weber. Stuttgart, Kröner, 1970, 2te, überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, 655pp. 18 cm, very good small blue cloth, a few minor pencil notations, previous owner's name, $11
Kröners Taschenausgabe, Bd. 382. Contains 27 substantial essays on post-war authors by notable literary historians. Added essays are on Karl Krolow and Peter Handke.


20032. Weber, Dietrich, Hrsg.. Deutsche Literatur seit 1945. In Einzeldarstellungen. Hrsg. von Dietrich Weber. Stuttgart: Kröner, 1968, 576pp., very good dust-jacket, very good small blue cloth, previous bookplate removed, $12
Kröners Taschenausgabe, Bd. 382. Contains 25 substantial essays on post-war authors by notable literary historians.