Author: DAUTHENDEY, M.,
Title: Das Märchenbriefbuch der heiligen Nächte im Javanerlande. [Erste Auflage; First edition].
Description: Berlin, Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1921. Small stout 8°., original clothbacked decorative coloured boards. Decorative gilded spine 315pp., 1 decorative monochrome head-piece after a draw., title-p. printed within a red typogr. border. Collection of german language stories, in which a picture is drawn of simple javanese village life, customs and folktales by a german national travelling throgh Java, Dutch East Indies.(front-edge with some light foxing, f.e.p.'foxed).

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