Tales from the Calendar by Bertolt Brecht - 1961

Methuen & Co, 1966. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. London, 1966; burgundy cloth covered boards; mild shelf wear; white jacket in very good condition with mild wear, flaps taped to boards, housed in a Bro-Dart like cover; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Ex-library with typical stamps and markings; Interior is clean and unmarked; 124 pages.

London: Methuen, 1966. First paperback edn. 8vo, pp. 124. Prose translated by Yvonne Kapp, Verse by Michael Hamburger. Paper wraps. Edges spotted, cover scuffed and heavily spotted, o/w a VG tight copy.

London, U.K.: Methuen & Co Ltd., 1961. Good Hardcover in jacket. Penned dedication on front endpaper. Dust jacket is protected with a thin cellophane wrapper which is glued to flaps. Jacket is slightly faded. Marks left by the imprint of sellotape on endpapers. Moderate age-spotting on page block. Binding is sound and pages are tight throughout. Text is clear. AF. Hardcover. Good/Good. Used.

London: Lion and Unicorn Press. Limited to 200 copies. VG+ copy . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1979.

Methuen, 1961. First English Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 - 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht,[a] was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the Verfremdungseffekt. During the Nazi Germany period, Bertolt Brecht fled his home country, first to Scandinavia, and during World War II to the United States, where he was surveilled by the FBI. After the war he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Returning to East Berlin after the war, he established… Read More

UK: Methuen & Co Ltd., 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bertolt Brecht compiled this collection of stories, poems and anecdotes himself immediately on his return to Germany from exile in 1947. This volume contains most of the short stories Brecht wrote and considered worth preserving. The boards, and text block are square and tight, the dustjacket has two small tear to the top of the front panel, it is also lightly discoloured. Book price includes 2nd class post in UK only.