Gibbon

1966 · 1028 — New York : The Viking Press c1966. 1966. Hardcover. Good/Fine. 190 pp. ; black cloth in colored dust jacket with illustration by Ronald Searle ; ex-lib ; this volume has some pages with misprints -- all the text is there and the illustrations but there are a few pages with faint bleed-through of ink ; eps soil ed ; Contents : Difficulties of beginning -- Beethovenstrasse -- German frontier problems -- People who lived in the house -- German infrastructures -- The front parlour -- German provincial life -- The little flag -- The Kaiser -- German myths - Sq uirrels -- The midsommer bonfire -- The German soul -- Inflation -- Prussia -- The burial -- The German Federal Republic -- The throughway -- Germany : some vital statistics -- Searle sees Germany -- People places and things ; FAIR <br/> <br/> New York : The Viking Press, c1966. hardcover