Berlin: A Photographic Portrait of The Weimar Years 1918-1933, 1991, HC, NF.

Friedrich, Thomas, and Stephan Spender. London: Tauris Parke Books, 1991.

English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 12" x 9 3/4", [8] 240 pp.

ISBN: 1850433518

Black cloth over board, stamped gilt lettering to spine, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block and endpapers. Very Good red and white pictorial dust jacket, featuring photograph "Potsdamer Platz in 1930" to front, 1925 photograph "Cabaret artists Claire Waldoff and Harry Lamberts-Paulsen at the Zille Ball" to back, red lettering to front and interior flaps, white lettering to spine, black lettering to interior flaps, minor bump to head, light shelf wear to back panel, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a plastic Mylar sleeve. [8] 240 pp., replete with black-and-white photographs. Includes a map of Berlin, Foreword, 6 chapters: “The Imperial Legacy,” “Revolution and Crisis,” “A Tour of the City,” “Art and Culture,” “Everyday Life,” “The End of the Republic,” Further Reading, and Index. From inside dust jacket: "These fascinating photographs provide a complete portrait of life in Berlin during the dramatic years of the Weimar Republic, between the end of the Empire and the birth of the Third Reich. Drawing on extensive archives in Berlin, the book brings together photographs rarely seen outside Germany."