Mon Village Ceux Qui N'oublient Pas
1913, the de luxe edition of Oncle Hansi's life in an Alsace village
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Printing Details
Undated [1913]. First edition, "edition de luxe". Hardback, bound in the original decorative cloth. 24.5 × 33cm, 33pp. French text.
Illustrated with 15 full page colour plates, and further smaller illustrations within the text. This deluxe edition has the illustrations printed on thicker paper than the trade edition. This book describes life in a French Alsace village a year before the Great War. Oncle Hansi (real name Jean-Jacques Waltz) was a French artist and a satirist who often had the Germans as the butt of his jokes. As such he was arrested by the Germans in 1914 (but escaped) and was again wanted by the Gestapo in the Second World War. He evaded them but was viciously attacked by the Nazis in 1940 and fled to Switzerland.
Condition
A fair copy of an attractive book. The corners are rubbed and the pages tanned throughout. The inner binding is shaken but still holding firm.
Price
£40.00
