LUSTIGES KLEINKINDERBUCH

by Adolf Holst, Gertrud Caspari

$200 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

Leipzig: Alfred hahns, circa 1907 . Third edition of this patriotic German board book, featuring children's activities from getting dressed in the morning to viewing a parade of pickelhaube-wearing soldiers. Very good. Item #8608 Published as Kaiser Wilhelm and Alfred von Tirpitz sought to expand Germany's military and colonial power, LUSTIGES KLEINKINDERBUCH paints a very nationalist picture of childhood in pre-WWI

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