Author: Yurlova, Marina
Title: Cossack Girl. The Albatross Continental Library. Volume 242.
Description: Hamburg, Paris, Bologna, Albatross, 1935. 216pp. 6pp publisher's list of titles up to April 1935. Randolph Rose's owner inscription to f.e.p. Baskerville type, Bautzen paper mill, Hegner Department of Oscar Brandstetter. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Rare Albatross edition. The Albatross publishing house had a remarkable history in the 1930s (linked to the popular Tauchnitz editions). These colour-coded paperbacks with their albatross symbol influenced Allen Lane in the design of Penguin Books. The name Albatross was chosen as it was similar in many languages. "Strange Bird" Michele K Troy, 2017.

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