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Lot 243
Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
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Mar 5, 2025
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Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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[CHILDREN'S BOOKS - STRUWWELPETER]. HOFFMANN, Heinrich (1809-1894). A group of 9 Struwwelpeter pastiches in English, comprising:
1) The Egyptian Stuwwelpeter. Being the Struwwelpeter Papyrus. London: H. Grevel & Co., n.d. [1896].
2) BEGBIE, Harold. The Political Struwwelpeter. London: Grant Richards, 1899.
3) BEGBIE, Harold. The Struwwelpeter Alphabet. London: Grant Richards, 1900.
4) WILLIAMS, Archibald. Motor-Car Peter. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, n.d. [1906].
5) WILLIAMS, Archibald. The Marlborough Struwwelpeter. Marlborough: The Times Office, n.d. [1908].
6) LUCAS, E.V. Swollen-Headed William. London: Methuen & Co., 1914.
7) LUCAS, E.V. Swollen-Headed William. New York: E.P. Dutton, n.d. [ca 1915].
8) OISTROS. Truffle Eater. London: Arthur Barker, n.d. [1933].
9) SPENCE, Robert and Philip. Struwwelhitler: a Nazi story book by Doktor Schrecklichkeit. London: Daily Sketch and Sunday Graphic, n.d. [ca 1941].
Together, 9 works in 9 volumes, all 8vo and 4to, all illustrated and in original pictorial boards, condition generally very good.