Wilhelm Hauff's Work, Complete in Four Volumes

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Small Octavos. Four Volume Set. Turquoise colored cloth covered boards and spines with gilt lettering on the spines (inside black letterboxes) and the front board of each, as well as shiny gilt ornament in the same places. Books all have a slight bump at the head and tail of teh spine with a trace of accompanying rubbing. Some surface rubbing on most of them, and a faint scratch or two here and there. Spines are slightly lighter than the boards from some light sun. Lettering is still shiny and easy to read. Light rubbingf at the tips of each of the outside corners - a couple of them have a light bump, but most look straight. About an inch of the rear hinge of Volume 1 is cracked and the entire front hinge of Volume 3 is cracked, although all four bindings are straight and feel tight. White endpapers. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. Text is all in gothic script. Last page of Volume One has a tear in the lower edge. 443 pages, 481 pages, 558 pages, and 455 pages respectively. Upper edge of the textblock of each has darkened over time. Contents: Erster Band (First Volume): Facsimile Letters, Life and Work, Poems, and Lichtenstein. Zweiter Band (Second Volume): Fantasies in the Bremen Ratskiller, Fairy Tale Almanac, 1826, and Memoirs of Beelzebub. Dritter Band (Volume Three): Man in the Moon Novellas. Vierter Band (Fourth Volume): Fairy Tale Novellas. Living only the the young age of 24, Hauff became the tutor to the children of the Wurttemberg minister of war, General Baron Ernst Eugen von Hugel , and wrote many of the fairy tales for them. Set will ship at actual cost. No dust jackets. No date found in the book, but the Editor's Note is dated 1903. Please send query to recieve images of any part of the book or books not pictured with the listing. N° de ref. del artículo 009582

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