430 - Riddle picture book Jetzt sollt ihr etwas Schoenes raten, Third Reich, with loose cover sheet, 1938

Riddle picture book Jetzt sollt ihr etwas Schoenes raten, Third Reich, with loose cover sheet, 1938 Klothilde Ledermann (verses) and Maria Herrmann (illustrations), Hugendubel publishers, Munich. Oblong riddle picture book, half-cloth binding with blue-grey spine and buff cover paper, cover title in script Jetzt sollt ihr etwas Schoenes raten, wire-stapled. Riddle verses in Gothic type on the left-hand pages, each facing a full-page watercolour illustration with the solutions: scenes of children, garden, village and Christmas. With the loose cover sheet belonging to the concept of the book, intended to cover the solution pictures, its printed verse explaining the use. Ink inscription on the first page, with name and place, dated Christmas 1938. Children's book from the era of the Third Reich: several illustrations with flag depictions typical of the National Socialist period, with the corresponding flag riddle; historical document of children's literature of the Nazi era. Used condition, binding stained and bumped, book block loosened in the stapling, staples corroded, pages browned and stained, the loose sheet creased with marginal tears. 25.5x19.5 cm. The riddle picture book was published in 1938 by Hugendubel in Munich with a coloured title page and twelve full-page colour plates; the inscription of Christmas 1938 matches the year of publication. The loose cover sheet belongs to the concept of the book and is usually lost in surviving copies. Children's and picture books from the Third Reich form a collecting field of historical literature in their own right; sought after are uncensored copies with complete original features, as present here with cover sheet and dated inscription of 1938.