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1914V75331Paris: H.Floury N.D 1914 according to british library. Hardcover. Good. Full page illustration to each opening & text illustrations 36 to facing page. Illustrations signed Hansi throughout. Landscape folio pictorial colored and gilt covers edges sl.browned anda bit marked but pictorial part of covers not affected All edges red. Half title Pictorial title 32pp index leaf oval christmas tree illustration to final leaf.Paper slightly tanned with five pages with some shipping to lower edge never near printed area and mostly without paper loss but the paper is slightly brittle to the edge. Laid in is a later Publisher's list of four pages of works by Hansi and others dated to November 1916. A pro-French childrens book depicting idyllc French communities in Alcace in contrast to the German occupation. Waltz was a staunchly pro-French Alsatian and this work seeks to reinforce anti-German sentiment. He was arrested in 1914 but escaped to join the French Army and continued to publish pro-French childrens books. He was forced to flee to Vichy France in 1940 fearing reprisal from the Gestapo after which he fled to Switzerland. H.Floury hardcover
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