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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manycats, post: 9579784, member: 13761&quot;]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&#039;s not clear to me what &quot;original historical sources&quot; for the books in green is, but maybe Greek &amp; Roman classics - it&#039;s not &#039;old&#039; books. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is from about 1905-1915 - here&#039;s a book in matching binding from 1910:</p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.de/itm/166330282709" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.de/itm/166330282709" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.de/itm/166330282709</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And another from 1906: <a href="https://www.ebay.de/itm/225422783473" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.de/itm/225422783473" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.de/itm/225422783473</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And one from 1915: <a href="https://www.ebay.de/itm/143205953779" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.de/itm/143205953779" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.de/itm/143205953779</a> - though by now the whole book, not just the spine, is in cloth - cheaper to produce, possibly. </p><p><br /></p><p>I note the publisher is &quot;Philipp Reclam jun.&quot; - 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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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&#039;s &#039;Hiawatha&#039; in the States.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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