I Bought a large scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings pictures and other ephemera mostly from 1938 - 1939. This small book written entirely in German was in it. Can anyone tell me the year this book is from, possible value and any other pertinent information? Thanks in advance...
Please post a closeup view, in focus, of the title page and the publisher's information at the foot of the page. Is there any information printed on the reverse of the title page?
The wikipedia page states that, "the original historical sources are in green. This a green book. Does that mean I have something of value here?
I doubt it after reading this phrase: When Anton Philipp Reclam died in 1896, his Universal-Bibliothek comprised about 3,500 books.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Die Harzreise ("The Harz Journey") is a travel report by German poet and author Heinrich Heine on a journey to the Harz mountains. Compiled in autumn 1824, it was first published as a serial in January and February 1826 in the magazine Der Gesellschafter by Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz and ran for 14 instalments. Some censorship changes were made beforehand. Later in 1826 Die Harzreise appeared in the first part of the Reisebilder ("Pictures of travel") collection. For the book, Heine made revisions and changes, and added the famous Göttingen section. Heine himself described his record as a literary fragment. The book was the first of Heine's to be published by Hoffmann & Campe in Hamburg, the publisher who later brought out all Heine's writings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Harzreise According to this site - https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/2354771-die-harzreise?per_page=100&utf8=✓ - there have been 266 editions of Die Harzreise published since its original publication in 1826. Your copy probably dates to around the early 20th century, based on the binding, and is unlikely to have any significant value.
Unlikely. The color-coding is for their modern paperbacks - yellow for literature in German, red for literature NOT in German, magenta for non-fiction. It's not clear to me what "original historical sources" for the books in green is, but maybe Greek & Roman classics - it's not 'old' books. Yours is from about 1905-1915 - here's a book in matching binding from 1910: https://www.ebay.de/itm/166330282709 And another from 1906: https://www.ebay.de/itm/225422783473 And one from 1915: https://www.ebay.de/itm/143205953779 - though by now the whole book, not just the spine, is in cloth - cheaper to produce, possibly. I note the publisher is "Philipp Reclam jun." - not sure if Junior has the same implications for a son of the same name in Germany as it does in the Anglophone world, but it seems likely. Heine was a massively-popular author (until his books were banned by the fascists in the 1930s) and was in the public domain by the late 1890s if not earlier, so there would be many editions of his more popular works, like, say, Longfellow's 'Hiawatha' in the States.
