john alexander meier (3 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce and sought after issue of Global Architecture, Special issue number 01 featuring masterpieces of home building over 284 pgs from many acknowledged master architects. Superbly illustrated, mostly in bland & white photos and sketches, with occasional color, as well as text in Japanese and English. Lovely copy, immaculate. Binding solid, strong, sturdy. Wraps excellent, clean, teeniest tiniest wear at corners but hardly so. Interior is bright, clean, nearly as new. Now covered in protective mylar. Top copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good condition. First edition. Octavo. 149 (1)pp. Original illustrated light brown boards with brown lettering on cover. Tan endpapers. 'Author of this book are the suffering and laughing German people, who's Nazi jokes of twelve years of suppression were collected by John Alexander Meier, edited by Kurt Sellin and prepared for print. John Alexander Meier wrote the epilog on the emergence of this collection. Drawings, including cover by Karl Bertsch. "All of Germany is a street car. The Führer at front. Who doesn't stand behind him, sits. Every other minute a cash out. Jumping off during the ride is prohibited.' or 'Mother, who is the man at the wheel? That is the Führer, child." "Mom, is that the man father always rants about?' These two jokes contain the essence of the conundrum. They are not real opposition, but an important sign for the existence of opposition, uttered in fruitless rants - in safe circles, of course - representing an insignificant film depicting the courage of men (Introduction). Laid in a printed advertising postcard of Suhrkamp Publishers, with return address, offering modern plays by Jacques Audiberti, Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, T. S. Eliot, Max Frisch, and others, in their "Spectaculum" series; an additional indicator for this transitory phase of German history as well as publishing history. Text in German. Light wear along edges of binding. Block lightly age-toned.

8° , illustr. Orig.Pappbd. 149 S. Gute Erhaltung Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.