The Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegl
New York: Pantheon Books Inc, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 495pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Tan cloth over boards. Publisher's black topstain. Black and white map endpapers. With negligible toning to the spine and subtle tanning to the pages. In a worn dust jacket, which is torn in half (taped at the head of the tear). Very Good / Fair. Item #67567
This is the first complete English translation by Allan Ross Macdougall; introduced to the English-speaking world by Camille Huysmans; illustrated with one hundred woodcuts by the author's compatriot Frans Masereel.
Masereel was well-known for his woodcut series, which were mainly of sociocritical content and of expressionistic formal concept, which brought him international acknowledgment. Among them were his so-called image novels including 'Passion eines Menschen', 'Mein Stundenbuch', 'Die Sonne', 'Die Idee' and 'Geschichte ohne Worte', which all date from the 1920s. During this same time Masereel also drew illustrations for famous works of world literature by Thomas Mann, Emile Zola and Stefan Zweig.
Price: $100.00