Carossa,H.
The fate of Doctor Bürger. Olten, Vereinigung Olten Bücherfreunde 194…
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Carossa,H. The fate of Doctor Bürger. Olten, Vereinigung Olten Bücherfreunde 1941. with 21 illustrations after pen and ink drawings and ╔1 sign. Original ink drawing╗ by K. Schmid. 6 p., 101 p., 1 sheet. Oprgt. (hand binding Emil Kretz) with ribbed boards, woodcut on front board and gilt headpieces. Ex. no. 481 (= paperback ex.), but printer's mark with inscription and signature: "Exemplare des Illustrators Nr. 12, Karl Schmid" (of XXXIII ex. with the ink drawing), which according to the printer's mark were bound in brown Levant goatskin, but here in full vellum.

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