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Printed Editions

7 titles in German, printed in the original — Franz Kafka, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Karl Marx · Friedrich Engels and 1 other. No English introductions, no commentary, just the text.

7 titles · every one a 6 × 9in hardcover

Die Verwandlung

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Kafka's novella in the German he wrote it in, complete and unabridged in 92 pages. No facing translation, no apparatus — the German text on a cream page and nothing else competing with it. Copy-text: first edition, Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig 1915 (Der jüngste Tag 22/23).

6 × 9in hardcover · 92pp · German · casewrap

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FAUST I

Faust, Part One

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The 1808 Faust in Goethe’s spelling — Zueignung to Kerker — with every speaker named and every stanza kept. Complete in 270 pages, in the original German; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 270pp · German · casewrap

$25.99

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Ein Hungerkünstler

A Hunger Artist — Four Stories

Franz Kafka

Kafka's four late stories in the original German, complete in 96 pages — the volume as he assembled it, not a selection made afterwards. Copy-text: Ein Hungerkünstler. Vier Geschichten, Verlag Die Schmiede, Berlin 1924 — the last book Kafka prepared himself. All four stories.

6 × 9in hardcover · 96pp · German · casewrap

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MANIFEST DER KOMMUNISTISCHEN PARTEI · SCHRIFTEN 1844–1848

The Communist Manifesto · Writings 1844–1848

Karl Marx · Friedrich Engels

The Manifesto with the writings that led to it — the Hegel introduction, On the Jewish Question, Engels’s Outlines and Condition of England, the Theses on Feuerbach — in German. Complete in 204 pages, in the original German; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 204pp · German · casewrap

$23.99

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FAUST II

Faust, Part Two

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The five acts of the second part, published in the year of Goethe’s death, in the German of the Ausgabe letzter Hand. Complete in 388 pages, in the original German; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 388pp · German · casewrap

$28.99

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KINDER- UND HAUSMÄRCHEN I

Children’s and Household Tales I

Brothers Grimm

Tales 1–86 of the seventh, final edition — Der Froschkönig to Der Fuchs und die Gänse — in the Grimms’ German. Complete in 520 pages, in the original German; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 520pp · German · casewrap

$31.99

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KINDER- UND HAUSMÄRCHEN II

Children’s and Household Tales II

Brothers Grimm

Tales 87–200 and the ten Kinderlegenden of the 1857 edition, in German, dialect tales included. Complete in 604 pages, in the original German; no English anywhere in the volume.

6 × 9in hardcover · 604pp · German · casewrap

$34.99

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