L'Histoire D'Alsace: Racontee Aux Petits Enfants D'Alsace et de France par L'Oncle Hansi
by Hansi, L'Oncle (Johann Jacob Waltz, or Jean-Jacque Waltz). Illustrated by Hansi and Huen
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- Hardcover
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Paris: H. Floury, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hansi and Victor Huen. Folio, 35 by 28.5 cm. 104 pp., with color lithographic illustrations on virtually every page, often with the illustration an underlay, in part or whole, to the text, and some illustrations on two pages. While a children's book, this was written when Alsace and Lorraine were a part of Germany, having been ceded by France as the settlement following France's humiliating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to 1871, and so Hansi's book was very much a political statement of allegiance to France, which at the time of his writing this was on the verge of entering World War One against Germany, and three years after the publication of this copy, France would regain Alsace. This and Hansi's many other books make him an unique and most beloved writer/illustrator of Alsace and France in general, and his magical illustrations convey the values of Alsatian folk art in their color and simplicity. Condition: cloth binding browned around perimeter and the entirety of the spine. Some edge rubbing and fraying of fabric. A slight shake to the binding. Endpapers with narrow chipping along edge. Leaves age toned, but mostly clean.
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- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007388
- Title
- L'Histoire D'Alsace: Racontee Aux Petits Enfants D'Alsace et de France par L'Oncle Hansi
- Author
- Hansi, L'Oncle (Johann Jacob Waltz, or Jean-Jacque Waltz). Illustrated by Hansi and Huen
- Illustrator
- Hansi and Victor Huen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- H. Floury
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1912
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
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