MANUSCRIPT JUVENILE - REIN, Helga (author and illustrator). Knöpfchen will reisen [Little Button Wants to Travel - 1930s' manuscript German juvenile].

watercolour manuscript

MANUSCRIPT JUVENILE - REIN, Helga (author and illustrator). Knöpfchen will reisen [Little Button Wants to Travel - 1930s' manuscript German juvenile]. No imprint or date, circa 1930.

Landscape 12mo. (12.5 x 10.5cm); original white parchment backed florally printed 1930s card covers, handsewn, edges untrimmed; pp. [12]; with 10 delightful handcoloured original pen-and-ink illustrations of the gnome character Button on his travels, with text in manuscript calligraphy beneath; a very nice copy with light dusting to covers, with bruise to lower upper forecorner, a vertical crease to lower cover and also to 2 final leaves, but otherwise very clean.

A delightful, and very accomplished, unique, and apparently unpublished, manuscript children's book, in German, completed to professional standards of illustration, about a little gnome called "Button" who sets off to travel the world by various means of transport: a toy train, sailing boat, motor car, and aeroplane but, after an alarming avdenture, returns to his little toadstool home.

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