Truffle Eater. Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures

  • 36 pp. [19 leaves printed on recto only], pen and ink drawings within text. 1 vols. 4to
  • London: Arthur Barker, Ltd, 1933
By Oistros [pseud. of Humbert Wolfe]
London: Arthur Barker, Ltd, 1933. First edition. 36 pp. [19 leaves printed on recto only], pen and ink drawings within text. 1 vols. 4to. Illustrated yellow paper boards, minor wear and soiling, head of spine bumped and frayed, foxing to the end papers and minor foxing to title page, owner inscription on front free end paper, else internally fine. Archibald Louis Charles Savory. First edition. 36 pp. [19 leaves printed on recto only], pen and ink drawings within text. 1 vols. 4to. A very good, internally clean, copy of Italian-born British poet, Humbert Wolfe's, anti-Nazi parody of Heinrich Hoffmann's famous German children's book, Der Struwwelpeter, with a caricature of Hitler as Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) on the cover. Verses include: "The Story of Adolf Head-in-air," "The Dreadful Story about Goebbels and the Matches," and "The Story of Goering who would not have the Jews.

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