Ekkehard: Eine Geschichte aus dem zehnten Jahrhundert.
Leipzig: Verlag von Friedrich Rothbarth, [1937]. Hardcover. 12mo. Light green cloth with dark green lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 437pp. Near fine/very good. Dust jacket a bit edgeworn and rubbed, with small edge chips at head and tail of spine; 1939 gift inscription on front pastedown. Item #39965
A tight, attractive later printing of Volume 33 in the (translation mine) "Novel Collection of the Past and Present," entirely in German. Title translation: "Ekkehard: A Story of the Tenth Century," this noted historical romance (first published 1857) was the first work by the well-known German poet and novelist (1826-86). Laid in is a promotional leaflet for another Leipzig publisher's edition of Heinrich Zerkaulen's novel "Der goldene Born."
Price: $20.00