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Libris published a series of catalogues. Their covers are here.

1988



William Hale White
, The autobiography of Mark Rutherford and Mark Rutherford’s deliverance

hb: 1 870352 00 9

Emile Legouis, The early life of William Wordsworth

hb: 1 870352 30 0
 | pb: 1 870352 01 7

Brigid Brophy, Mozart the dramatist: the value of his operas to him, to his age and to us

hb: 1 870352 35 1 | pb: 1 870352 90 4



J.A. Froude, The nemesis of faith

hb: 1 870352 10 6



Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Roman elegies and The diary

hb: 1 870352 05 x



François Lafitte, The internment of aliens

hb: 1 870352 55 6 | 
pb: 1 870352 96 3



1989



Hans Fallada, The drinker

hb: 1 870352 50 5



Livia Veneziani Svevo, Memoir of Italo Svevo

hb: 1 870352 40 8 | 
pb: 1 870352 53 x



Gwyn A. Williams, Artisans and sans-culottes: popular movements in France and Britain during the French Revolution

pb: 1 870352 80 7

1990



Erich Kästner, Fabian: the story of a moralist

hb: 1 870352 45 9

Richard Dove, He was a German: a biography of Ernst Toller

hb: 1 870352 85 8
 | pb: 1 870352 25 4



Édouard Dujardin, The bays are sere and Interior monologue

hb: 1 870352 70 x



1991



Patrick Bridgwater, Poet of Expressionist Berlin: the life and work of Georg Heym

hb: 1 870352 75 0

Pablo Neruda
, Elemental odes (bilingual edition)

hb: 1 870352 63 7 | pb: 1 870352 58 0

1992

Hanns Otto Münsterer, The young Brecht

hb: 1 870352 73 4
 | pb: 1 870352 33 5


1993

Georg Lukács, German realists in the nineteenth century

hb: 1 870352 60 2



1994



Rosemary Ashton, The German idea: Coleridge, Carlyle, George Eliot, G.H. Lewes and the reception of German thought, 1800–1860

pb: 1 870352 28 9



Johann Peter Hebel, The treasure chest

hb: 1 870352 43 2



Georg Heym, The thief and other stories

hb: 1 870352 68 8
 | pb: 1 870352 48 3



Nigel Reeves, Heinrich Heine: poetry and politics

pb: 1 870352 57 2


1996



Fred Bridgham, The friendly German–English dictionary: a guide to German language, culture & society through faux amis, literary illustration & other diversions

hb: 1 870352 65 3 | 
pb: 1 870352 67 x



Hans Fallada, Little man – what now?

hb: 1 870352 15 7

1997

Keith Bosley (editor and translator), Eve Blossom has wheels: German love poetry

hb: 1 870352 52 1 | 
pb: 1 870352 



Eduard Mörike, Mozart’s journey to Prague and Selected poems

hb: 1 870352 82 3


1998

Bertolt Brecht, War primer

hb: 1 870352 21 1 | 
pb: 1 870352 46 7



Jenny Williams, More lives than one: a biography of Hans Fallada

hb: 1 870352 38 6

 | pb: 1 870352 31 9

Theodor Fontane, Beyond the Tweed

hb: 1 870352 95 5 | 
pb: 1 870352 16 5


1999



Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Selected poetry

hb: 1 870352 11 4
 | pb: 1 870352 26 2


2000



Richard Dove, Journey of no return: five German-speaking literary exiles in Britain, 1933–1945

hb: 1 870352 36 x

2001



Georg Trakl, Poems and prose

hb: 1 870352 71 8
 | pb: 1 870352 51 3


2002

Marian Malet and Anthony Grenville (editors), Changing countries: the experience and achievement of German-speaking exiles from Hitler in Britain from 1933 to today

hb: 1 870352 61 0 | pb: 1 870352 66 1



2004

Georg Heym, Poems

hb: 1 870352 87 4 | 
pb: 1 870352 97 1



2005



Sebastian Haffner, Germany, Jekyll and Hyde: an eye-witness analysis of Nazi Germany

hb 1 870352 76 9 |pb: 1 870352 81 5



Friedrich Schiller, William Tell: a play

hb 1 870352 86 6 | pb: 1 870352 91 2

2006


Reiner Kunze and Mireille Gansel, ‘In time of need’: a conversation about poetry, resistance & exile

hb: 1 870352 07 6

2009

Erdmut Wizisla, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht: the story of a friendship

hb: 1 870352 17 3




planned but not published



These are among the books for which plans to publish were made:

Piero Malvezzi and Giovanni Pirelli (editors), Last letters from the European resistance, 1939–1945
.
A translation by Stuart Hood was annnounced in the first Libris catalogue, but it was never published, by Libris or any other firm.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal, An impossible man
A translation by Alexander Stillmark was issued in 2016 by the Modern Humanities Research Association.

Franz Fühmann, Selected stories
An edition, to be translated by Martin Chalmers, was planned but never published. Hoping to interest another publisher in the project, after he had closed Libris, Nick Jacobs wrote: ‘Comparably to Fallada, Fühmann presents a completely original German voice, scored but not quite destroyed by the crucible of twentieth-century German history.’

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenia in Taurus
A translation by Roy Pascal had been made in the 1950s (broadcast on BBC Radio’s Third Programme in October 1954) and this was proposed to Nick Jacobs for publication by Libris: he responded enthusiastically. But by the time Libris had been closed, work on the edition was unfinished. Eventually, in 2014, Iphigenia in Taurus appeared with Antony Wood’s Angel Books.