Wien: Verlag Leoplod Heidrich. Good with no dust jacket. c1920. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; Ltd ed 269/370 . 14 color illustrations . Original drawings on hand made paper and have been printed in the Hermes-printing company in Vienna. Jewish Poetry. German Language. Circa 1920 as noted in #Worldcat which locates but 8 copies mostly in Germany. Apr 9 x 13" lacking spine strip contents VG. Signed by artist on limitation page. ; Signed by Illustrator . Verlag Leoplod Heidrich hardcover
London: Methuen & Co. LTD. 1927. First thus. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 22.5 x 18cm. Octavo. 78 pages. Twelve color plates by Felix de Gray. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Blue cloth in the uncommon dust jacket. All 4 corners of dust jacket flaps are clipped. Small chip to top right corner of dust jacket. Some rubbing to the edges of the boards. Methuen & Co. LTD. hardcover
<p>Light toning gutter and pages have been corrected and in place. Spine has been reinforced still a strong and very nice.</p><p>An unusual slip of writing has been left inside</p><p>Translated from German by Charles Godfrey Leland.</p><p>Excerpts: <em>Florentine Nights: </em>Maximilian entertains his ailing friend Maria with a series of reflections on his childhood love women genius and music as well as English manners cookery and physiognomy. Highlights include a phantasmagoric rendering of a violin recital by the virtuoso Paganini and the unfolding story of a family of street performers encountered on Waterloo Bridge.</p><p><em> FROM THE MEMOIRS OF HERR VON SCHNABELEWOPSKI: </em> My father was named Schnabelewopski my mother Schnabelewopska. I was born as legitimate son of both the 1st of April 1795 in Schnabelewops. My great aunt the old lady von Pipitzka nursed me as a child and told me pretty tales and often sang me to sleep with a song of which I have forgotten both the words and tune; but I can never forget the strange mysterious way in which she nodded as she sang and how mournfully her only tooth the solitary hermit of her mouth peeped out.</p><p><em>THE RABBI OF BACHARACH:</em>On the Lower Rhine where its banks begin to lose their smiling aspect where hills and cliffs with romantic ruined castles rise more defiantly and a wild and sterner dignity prevails there lies like a strange and fearful tale of the olden time the gloomy and ancient town of Bacharach. But these walls with their toothless battlements and turrets in whose nooks and niches the winds blew and the sparrows rest were not always so decayed and fallen and in these poverty-stricken repulsive muddy lanes which one sees through the ruined tower there did not always reign that dreary silence which is only now and then broken by crying children scolding women and lowing cows. These walls were once proud and strong and these lanes were alive with a fresh free life power and pride joy and sorrow much love and much hate.</p><p><strong>Insurance & handling is included free. Extra Charges/Fees apply on Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books may require additional fees. Will advise. </strong> Written 1.9.21J #4349-122720 Biblio Updated 1.29.21 Img #5402 <strong>Updated 9.24.25 </strong> #4349-122720 Biblio Updated </p> John W. Lovelle Co hardcover
Methuen 1927 SCARCE first edition. Wonderful deco style paintings often broken up to sell as prints and you can see why. This copy has all the captioned picture guards and it is RARE in this condition. The translated text by Charles Leland. Supremely collectable. No jacket. 0.0 0.0 0.0. Illus. by Felix De Gray. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Methuen hardcover