By Bruno H Bürgel; Ivy E. Clegg [trans.]
London   G. Bell and Sons Ltd.
8.5" by 6" viii, 266, [2]pp.
First English edition of this delightful children's short story collection on the adventures of Doctor Oola-Boola, illustrated throughout with sixteen plates.
By Bruno H Bürgel; Ivy E. Clegg [trans.]

1932 Oola-Boola's Wonder Book

London   G. Bell and Sons Ltd.
8.5" by 6" viii, 266, [2]pp.
First English edition of this delightful children's short story collection on the adventures of Doctor Oola-Boola, illustrated throughout with sixteen plates.
£55.00
: 0.5kgs / : 998B41

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Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

First English-language edition.

In publisher's original green cloth binding.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen further plates by Scottish painter and artist Anna Zinkeisen. Collated, complete. 

Published originally in German, this children's short story collection contains sixteen tales on the fantastical adventures of Doctor Oola-Boola. Written by Bruno H Bürgel, best known as an astronomer and science journalist, and translated into English by Ivy E. Clegg.

Condition

In publisher's original green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing and a few marks. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and clean with light spotting only, mainly to the first and last few pages.

Very Good Indeed

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