Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

by Adelbert von Chamisso, Alfred Hagel, Illustrated by

$45 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

Wien; Leipzig; München: Rikola Verlag, 1922. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. 64, 4 pp. Original half cloth over illustrated paper covered boards. Decorative endpapers. Exquisite edition of this 1814 novella written by exiled French aristocrat Adelbert von Chamisso. In the story, Schlemihl sells his shadow to the Devil for a bottomless wallet, only to find that a man without a shadow is shunned by human society. The woman he

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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