first edition
[1932] · Wien
by ERDBERG, Oskar; Anna S. Kulischer, trans
Wien: Verlag für Literatur und Politik, [1932]. First German Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-montaged dust jacket; 188pp. Shallow losses along jacket extremities, some caused by biopredation along upper jacket spine edge, additionally with loss at top edge of rear panel affecting text with some brief loss of sense, cloth a bit darkened at extremities, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Collection of short stories of "modern China" by the Russian orientalist. Jacket in the style of John Heartman, though unattributed to any designer (see Jürgen Holstein (ed.), The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic (2015), p. 347). (Inventory #: 37463)