553 - HANSI.

HANSI. Happy Alsace. The Great Compassion of the Alsace Region and Its Great Happiness, Told to Little Children. Paris: Floury, n.d. [circa 1920]. Large quarto, publisher’s pale blue cardboard binding with title and personalized polychrome decoration on the front cover (Engel - Hansi). Color illustrations by HANSI “with a few sad pictures and many cheerful ones.” ” Copy enhanced with an AUTHOR’S HANDWRITTEN LETTER: “[…] I have a grueling summer of work ahead of me. In addition to this book for Floury, I am contracted to deliver the text and the watercolor for the cover of one of the books in the Rey collection, on Alsace […]” (1927) & a handwritten letter from the publisher Gallais, accompanied by a text in German. The top edge of the first spine is split 2 cm along its length, and there is a minor blemish on the second cover. INCLUDED: • HANSI. The History of Alsace Told to the Little Children of Alsace and France. Paris, Floury, 1913. Large quarto, publisher’s gray-blue cardboard binding with title and personalized polychrome decoration adorning the covers (Engel binding). Color illustrations by HANSI and HUEN. Spine and second cover faded; cap ends damaged: inner hinges split with the last section detached. •• HANSI. The History of Alsace Told to the Children of Alsace and France. Paris, Floury, 1915. Same cardboard binding. Spine slightly faded. SET OF THREE VOLUMES.