Gesammelte Werkes; Karl May; 10vols; 1952; E-78

Description: Please note we do not work weekends. All offers, questions, or concerns may not be answered until Monday. Please understand this means you may need to resubmit your offer Sunday evening. Thank you for supporting our libraries and have a great weekend. Karl Friedrich May was a German author who lived 1842-1912. He is best known for his novels of travels and adventures, set in the American Old West, the Orient, the Middle East, Latin America, China and Germany. He is still one of the best-selling German writers of all time, with about 200,000,000 copies sold worldwide. With few exceptions, May had not visited the places he described, but he compensated successfully for his lack of direct experience through a combination of creativity, imagination, and documentary sources including maps, travel accounts and guidebooks, as well as anthropological and linguistic studies. The work of writers such as James Fenimore Cooper, Gabriel Ferry, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Balduin Möllhausen and Mayne Reid served as his models. May was a prolific author; in his early work, he wrote in a variety of genres until he showed his proficiency in adventure fiction. Thirty-three volumes of Karl May's Gesammelte Reiseerzählungen were published from 1892 to 1910 by Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld. After the founding of the Karl May Press in 1913, works in Gesammelte Werke were revised (sometimes extensively) and many received new titles. Texts (other than those from Fehsenfeld Press) were also added to the new series. This collection of 10 volumes from the later Gesammelte Werkes were published in 1952 (unless noted), released in a series of numbered volumes. These are small books (4-1/4" x 7"), hardbound in green buckram cloth, with colorful paste-down covers. They are in various decent conditions; all have some level of age and wear marks on the covers. Endsheets of all volumes (unless noted) are maps related to the stories.#1: Durch die Wüste. Covers and text block are solid; the text block is detached from the covers but still holding by the hinges. The inside front cover has a signature in blue pen across the map. #14: Old Surehand I. There is a property sticker is on the inside cover, front upper left corner, and a brown pen mark on the inside front right map. #15: Old Surehand II. Front hinge is loose. Front maps have both a signature in blue pen across the map and a property sticker on the inside cover, front upper left corner. The last page is a list of the Werkes, with checkmarks and notations in blue pen.#27: Bei den Trümmern von Babylon. This cover is in very poor shape, only holding on to the text block by the endsheets. The top spine cover has frayed away from both the front and back covers and the spine itself. The covers and spine are also very worn. The inside front cover has a signature in blue pen across the map; the inside back cover's map is torn away on the top right corner.#36: Der Schatz im Silbersee. There is a property sticker and no map on the front endsheets. There is a property stamp on the title page and the first story page. The covers are loose on the text block but all are solid otherwise. #40: Der Blaurote Methusalem (1951). This cover is in very poor shape, only holding on to the text block by the endsheets. The top spine cover has frayed away from both the front and back covers and the spine itself. The inside front cover has a signature in blue pen across the map. The front flyleaf and first title page are half-torn from the spine. The text block is solid. The last page is a list of the Werkes, with notations in red pen.#41: Die Sklavenkarawane (1949). The cover and spine are loose, but still attached; there is some fraying along the top and bottom edges of the spine. There are no maps on the endsheets. There is a property sticker on the upper left inside front cover, and a signature in pencil across the right inside front cover. The last page is a list of the Werkes, with notations in red and blue pen.#46: Die Juweleninsel (1953). There is a property sticker on the upper left inside front cover, and the lower right corner of the right inside endsheet is torn a little (but present). The last page is a list of the Werkes, with notations in black pen. #54: Trapper Geierschnabel. The covers are a little loose from the text block. There is a signature on the title page in blue pen. No map on the back endsheets. The last page is a list of the Werkes, with notations in red and blue pen. #62: Im Tal des Todes (1951). Best volume of the set, completely intact, no markings or property stamps found.All proceeds benefit the Libraries of Pima County. Please review all photos. This listing has been donated. Please note that the listing is for what you see in the listing. We photograph all of it so you know what you are purchasing. The sale of the item(s) benefits Friends of the Pima Library (501c3 non-profit).

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