Selbst Ist der Mann: Ein neues Beschäftigungsbuch bei Sonnenschein und Regenwetter.
Stuttgart, Germany: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Beige cloth spine with black lettering and tan color pictorial paper over boards. vi, 291pp, (1p ad). Color frontispiece, 3 full-page color plates, extensive (441) line drawings. Very good. Faint binding wear only, else quite tight and internally fine. Item #49118
Handsome 24th printing of this popular boys' carpentry and craft project book, entirely in German, whose title translations: "Self Is the Man: A New Activities Book for Sunshine and Rainy Weather." These craft projects will strike today's readers as remarkably difficult and advanced for the intended juvenile audience. 1924 ownership name/place on front pastedown of a young boy of Middle Amana, the noted German community of Iowa.
Price: $55.00