Der Kaiser und die Hexe [The Emperor and the Witch], by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal. Berlin: Insel bei Schuster & Loffler, 1900. German.
A fine bibliophile edition of the play "The Emperor and the Witch" by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal. Text printed in black and red on thick, high-quality paper. The title page, taking up a double-spread, shows an impressive Jugendstil-style illustration by German painter and architect Heinrich Vogeler (1872-1942); printed in gold, red and green. Copy no. 145 out of an edition of 200 copies, bound in a vellum binding (endpapers also illustrated by Heinrich Vogeler).
58, [2] pages, 22.5 cm. Good condition. Minor damage. Stains on first and last pages [endpapers and blank leaves]. Dedication in pen and inscriptions in pencil on the two blank leaves at the beginning of the book.

Ballade des äusseren Lebens, Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Original illustrations by Gertrud Bechtel. No publisher indicated. [Germany, 1927]. German.
Single-copy book, made of handmade paper, written and illustrated entirely by hand and featuring, on the right-hand pages, a poem by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and on the left-hand pages, colorful illustrations in watercolor by the artist Gertrud Bechtel. Bound in leather binding with golden decoration. The leaves are not attached to the binding (originaly).
[20] pp, 33 cm. Good condition. Inner wrapper torn on spine. Damage to leather spine. Some stains.

Um Berlin, Zehn Original Lithographien von Rudolf Grossmann. Text von Georg Herrmann. [To Berlin]. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1912. German.
Large portfolio with ten signed lithographs by artist Rudolf Grossmann, with booklet that includes a text by Georg Herrmann decorated with two illustrations by Grossmann. On the front cover is a lithograph by Grossmann.
Printed in an edition of 180 copies, out of which 30 are on Japanese paper and 150 are on Dutch paper.
Georg Herrmann (1871-1943) - Jewish writer born in Berlin, very popular in the early twentieth century. He was the first chairman of the German Writers Association (Schutzverbandes Deutscher Schriftsteller); escaped from the Nazis to the Netherlands, was captured and transferred to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. On the title page is a dedication in pencil (in Herrmann's handwriting?), to Dr. Max Marcuse, an important Jewish sexologist (dated, 1919).
10 leaves of lithographs, 8 pp., 68X53 cm. Good condition. Wear to binding, light stains and worn corners.

George Grosz, Ecce Homo. Berlin: Malik, 1923. German.
One of the most important graphic works of the German artist George Grosz (1893-1959). This work was published in five different editions. The present edition, "Ausgabe BII", includes reproductions of 16 watercolor drawings held in the original cardboard case, with an illustration by Grosz printed on the front.
The title of the work is taken from the words of Pontius Pilate, spoken when Jesus was brought before him, bound and battered, far from being the "messiah" he claimed to be only a few days earlier. Grosz uses these words to illuminate the figure of the average German citizen, who considered himself a moral and peace-loving hero, and to portray that figure as Grosz saw him, in a harshly critical light, a decade prior to Hitler's rise to power.
[16], [2] leaves, 36 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Foxing to cardboard case. Tear of about 3 cm. to one of the plates.

Das Stiftsfräulein und der Tod [The Canoness and Death], by Alfred Döblin. Berlin-Wilmersdorf: A.R. Meyer, [1913]. German.
Story by Jewish-German author Alfred Döblin. With five impressive woodcuts by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), German painter and printmaker, one of the founders of the group of Expressionist painters Der Brucke. This story by Döblin is the first literary work illustrated by Kirchner.
[6] pp + [4] leaves (woodcuts), 23.5 cm. Bound in a new leather binding, without front cover. Part of the original front cover - a woodcut by Kirchner - is inlaid in the binding. Good condition.