Comet No. 1: A piece of German book history that is far from over, captured in conversations. Who would have thought that nearly three decades after the release of its first volumes, this book series with the ambitious name "The Other Library" still exists? Especially since the ambitious publishing project was supposed to be limited to a dozen times a dozen - twelve books each year for twelve years. The emblem of the Other Library, the multifaceted comet that has glowed alongside the Other Library since its inception, has a history filled with the dangers of bookmaking and miraculous rescues - leading from Nördlingen to Frankfurt and finally to Berlin. The motto of this Other Library has become a far-sighted slogan that outlines a small philosophy of publishing: "We only print books that we would like to read ourselves.".