Author: GREAT WAR - FIRST WORLD WAR PERSONAL IN MEMORIAM,
Title: Deutschlands toten Helden. [fitle on front boards]. Aus dem Leben des Toten. [Original Ausgabe/oridinal edition].
Description: S.I., s.n., [..], 1917. Original boards, title in bold black type (high-german or imperial script] on front boards, with a large black/whiteillustration at tail, printed within a broad black mourning line-border. 55pp. With 6 lines of pre-printed dedication text followed by 2 lines ms. text in ink revealing a german family name by Dülken [?] at Asseln [?], ti.-p. printed with a abundant decorative and partly illustrated black/white border, with a 6-line ms. notice in ink which reveals in final 2 lines the demise of a german military by the name of Gustav K....., gefallen am 8. Mai 1917 [Killed in action 8 May 1917, written in latin script]. Further 55pp. of text printed in high- or imperial german script. 4 plates after photographs, large decorative head-and-tail pieces, large decorative vignettes, black decorated initials, complete text printed within a black decorative typographical border. Except pieces of ms. text entirely printed in High German or Imperial script. Official album presented to next of kin of a german military killed in action 8 May 1917 (Western Fornt), officially issued by the german Imperial ministry of War. Text, plates and vignettes are, as usual, in bombastic style, heing the glorification of a hero who dedicated his life to the fatherland and more general the glorification of war and the army. Very good and well preserved copy of a rare piece of memorabilia dealing with the First World War or Great War. (some light soiling to lower outer boards).

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