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7384. Anderson, Edith. Love in Exile. An American Writer's Memoir of Life in Divided Berlin. South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth Press, 1999, stated First Edition, 404pp., very good dust-jacket, light wear, very good black half-cloth, light wear at top of spine, publisher's announcement and description sheet laid in, $20
Memoir by the wife of Max Schroeder, who returned from American emigration to East Berlin to become editor at the Aufbau-Verlag. The author still lives in Berlin. ISBN 1883642671


15992. Balzer, Hans. Unser Haus. Leipzig: Privatdruck, 1961, 31pp., very good small woven cloth, $35
Published by friends on the occasion of the author's 70th birthday. Das starke Gefühl der Verbundenheit mit der Heimat und vor allem mit dem Elternhaus... unser liebes Handorf (bei Lüneburg).


30603. Brandenburg, Hans, 1885-1968. München leuchtete. Jugenderinnerungen. München, Herbert Neuner, 1953, , worn dust-jacket, tape repairs and marks on reverse, very good red cloth, a few minor pencil erasures, previous owner's stamp on title page: Dr. Andreas Burger, $20
Einband und Schutzumschlag nach Entwurf von Dieter Thurm. .


22260. Dischner, Gisela, Hrsg.. Eine stumme Generation berichtet: Frauen der dreissiger und vierziger Jahre. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Gisela Dischner. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1982, Originalausgabe, 223pp.: ill. 18 cm, small PAPERBACK, worn but good copy, INSCRIBED possibly by Erna N. = Erna Nelki, one of the contributors. $15
Die Frau in der Gesellschaft. Texte und Lebensgeschichten. ISBN 3596237270


22259. Domin, Hilde, 1909-2006. Von der Natur nicht vorgesehen: Autobiographisches. München: Piper, 1974, 157pp. 19 cm, small PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's name, $12
Serie Piper, 90. ISBN 3492003907


26849. Elbe, Joachim von, 1902-. Witness to history : a refugee from the Third Reich remembers. Joachim von Elbe.. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies ; Distributed by the University of Wisconsin Press, 1988, ix, 386pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray hardcover, $25
Revised version of the German edition (Bertelsmann, 1983): Unter Preussenadler und Sternenbanner. Ein Leben für Deutschland und Amerika. The author recalls his legal studies under Triepel, his youth in Germany, his work on post-war treaties after 1945, studies at Yale Law school, meeting Hugo Steiner-Prag, etc. ISBN 0924119004


16274. Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986. No souvenirs : journal, 1957-1969. Translated from the French by Fred H. Johnson, Jr. New York: Harper & Row, 1977, stated First Edition, xiv, 343pp., 22 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth, $12
. ISBN 0060621419


22218. Gray, Spalding, 1941-2004. Morning, noon, and night. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999, stated First Edition, 151pp., very good dust-jacket, very good hardcover, previous owner's inscription, $7.5
. ISBN 0374299854


34100. Griffith, Nicola. And now we are going to have a party : liner notes to a writer's early life. Seattle: Cauheegan: Payseur & Schmidt, 2007, stated First Edition, 57, 77, 51, 17, 41pp., PAPERBACK, 5 volumes in cardboard slipcase, fresh copies, well-preserved, the baby photograph laid in is SIGNED by Nicola Griffith and states "This first edition of ANWAGTHAP [And now we are going to have a party] is limited to 450 signed and numbered boxed sets". $59
Includes 5 paperback volumes, 1 facsimile of a book written by the author when she was a small child, 1 folded poster, 4 printed card (which are: a preface and 3 "scratch and sniff" cards "olfactory notes to a writer's early life"), 1 baby photograph of author signed on back by the author, and 1 audio cd (in a separate pocket inside the slipcase). ISBN 9780978911416


9968. Herdan-Zuckmayer, Alice. Das Kästchen. Die Geheimnisse einer Kindheit. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1971, later printing, 171pp., dust-jacket worn around edges with a few minor tears, very good blue cloth, $14
. ISBN 3100312015


29942. Heuss-Knapp, Elly, 1881-1952. Ausblick vom Münsterturm : Erinnerungen. Stuttgart: Rainer Wunderlich Verlag, Tübingen: Hermann Leins, 1953, zweite Auflage, 6.-10. Tausend, 169pp., worn dust-jacket, scuffed, good blue cloth, $9
Drawings in text by Theodor Heuss.


28164. Jacoby, Henry, 1905-. Davongekommen : 10 Jahre Exil 1936-1946 : Prag, Paris, Montauban, New York, Washington : Erlebnisse und Begegnungen. Frankfurt am Main : Sendler, no date, around 1982, 149pp., PAPERBACK, very good, very slight cigarette odor, $25
. ISBN 3880480591


7804. Josenhans, Marie. Meine alten Weiblein II. Alltagserlebnisse aus der alten armen Zeit. Stuttgart: Quell Verlag, 1987, , PAPERBACK, previous owner's bookplate, $5
Stories of old women around 1900.


21232. Lefcourt, Peter, ed.. The first time I got paid for it - writers' tales from the Hollywood trenches. Edited by Peter Lefcourt and Laura J. Shapiro for The Writers Guild Foundation. With a foreword by William Goldman. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2002, later printing, 254pp., PAPERBACK, very good, slight wear, $3
A collection of essays by film and television writers on the first time they got paid for their work. Fifty contributors. ISBN 0306810972


22212. Lessing, Doris. Under My Skin. Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949. New York: HarperCollins, 1994, stated First U.S. edition, 419pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black half-cloth, remainder stripe on bottom edge, $7.5
. ISBN 0060171502


25364. Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005. Timebends : a life. New York : Grove Press, 1987, stated First Trade edition, 614pp., very good dust-jacket, very good green half-cloth, $10
. ISBN 0802100155


14478. Neilson, Elisabeth M., 1882-. The house I knew. Memories of youth. Boston, Houghton Mifflin company, 1941, 1st edition, 338pp., fair dust-jacket, torn across front panel with partial loss of image, very good gray cloth, $15
Memoir by later wife of Smith College President William Allan Neilson. Here she recalls her youth in Germany: "a forgotten corner of a vanished world, the older, kinder, gayer Germany, the Germany that Hitler killed" (jacket text). Her liberal father was a founder of the democratic party. The NY Times reviewer called it "often beautiful and never thoughtless reading", a work of literary quality, which evoked "the lost German world of individuals.".


14824. Neumeyer, Alfred, 1901-1973. Lichter und Schatten. Eine Jugend in Deutschland. München, Prestel-Verlag, 1967, 300pp., fair small light-blue cloth, cover scuffed and stained around edges, some light foxing, usable reading copy, text clean, binding solid, $10
Reminiscences of the German art historian who taught in emigration at Mills College in Oakland. Includes photos of Karl Neumeyer, Alfred Neumeyer, Carl Georg Heise, Wilhelm von Bode, Eduard Spranger, Romano Guardini, Max J. Friedländer, Heinrich Wölfflin, Adolph Goldschmidt, Aby Warburg, Bernard Berenson,.


24327. Reich-Ranicki, Marcel. Mein Leben. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2001, 2. Auflage, 565pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $11
. ISBN 3423128305


21162. Rubenstein, Richard L., 1924-. Power struggle. New York, Scribner [1974], x, 193pp. 24 cm, dust-jacket worn around edges with a few chips and tears, very good gray cloth, $12
An autobiographical confession. With interesting comments on his Harvard professors, including Tillich. ISBN 0684137577


18246. Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965. Aus meiner Kindheit und Jugendzeit. München, C. H. Beck [1924], 58.-64. Tausend, 63pp. 22 cm, good yellow cloth, but heavy foxing on cover, $9
.


2120. Szeps, Berta, 1864-1945. My Life & History. Translated from German by John Sommerfield. New York: Knopf, 1939, "First American Edition", 324pp., good purple cloth a bit faded and edgeworn, $15
This book was previously published in French, German and Dutch.


27418. Tillich, Hannah. From time to time. New York, Stein and Day, 1973, 252pp., fair dust-jacket worn, scuffed, and chipped around edges, good brown half-cloth, but with a few minor red pencil marks or erasures on a few pages, $10
Includes chapters on Rotenburg, Wippershain, Wilhelmshöhe, Gelsenkirchen, Hamm in Westfalen. ISBN 0812816269


15987. Troutwine-Braun, Charlotte. Open Windows. The Autobiography of Charlotte Troutwine-Braun. Foreword by Stephen Spignesi. East Haven, Connecticut: Stephen John Press, 1994, 283pp., large PAPERBACK, very good, slight wear, Nr. 108 of 300 copies, signed by the author. $35
"inspiring autobiographical account of a woman's triumphant struggle against male domination and abuse in life, in business and in academia." Work in medical profession, secretary in various academic settings, interest in the paranormal, psychic phenomena. Also Boston memoir.


13555. Vordtriede, Werner, 1915-1985. Das verlassene Haus: Tagebuch aus dem amerikanischen Exil 1938-1947. München. Wien: Hanser, no date, around 1975, 410pp., good dust-jacket, chipped at top of spine, very good brown cloth, $35
. ISBN 3446120572


30361. Wetzel, Manfred. Im Rudel aufgewachsen. Kurioses in meinem Leben. Rathenow: Eigenverlag (Self-published), no date, around 2000, 2000, 192pp., PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's gift inscription, $15
Reminiscences of life in Rathenow, a small town in Brandenburg, 1945 to about 2000.


7954. Wolff, Kurt, 1887-1963. Autoren, Bücher, Abenteuer. Betrachtungen und Erinnerungen eines Verlegers. Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach, 1965, 6.- 8. Tausend, 116pp., stiff black paper wraps, slight wear and a few minor pencil erasures, $18
.


23269. Zetzel, Louis. Memoirs. [Cambridge, Mass.: Louis Zetzel], 1990, 102pp.: ill., ports. 25 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, printed in 250 copies. $35
"Two hundred and fifty books were printed in December of 1990.".


28248. Zuckmayer, Carl, 1896-1977. A part of myself. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970, stated First American Edition, 425 p. 22 cm., good dust-jacket, some light foxing on reverse, very good red cloth, light foxing, corner of front endpaper clipped, $19
Jacket design Charles Skaggs. Translation of Als wär’s ein Stück von mir. "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book." Jacket photo of Zuckmayer by Wolfgang Isser.