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Hauff, Wilhelm and Eckenstein, Lina (ed. and trans.).
The Little Glass Man and Other Stories; from the German of Wilhelm Hauff; Illustrated.
Publisher: Cassell Publishing Company, New York;
Date of Publication: 1893
Stock Code: 14685
The first edition in English, published simultaneously with the London edition. Duodecimo, pp., [4], 176, 7 of publisher’s advertisements, [1], plus frontispiece and 1 full-page plate, as called for. Original publisher’s green cloth over bevelled boards, titled and ornamented in gilt to spine and upper board; top edge gilt, fore and lower-edge uncut, partially unopened. Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf-wear to spine-tips, very slight scuffs to cloth. Contents clean, bright, and fresh. A near-fine copy. An attractive copy of the first English translation of Das kalte Herz (1827), with an introduction by the translator Lina Eckenstein (1857-1931). Eckenstein was a socialist, feminist, and polymath who would later to go on to publish a comparative study of nursery rhymes in 1906. Hauff’s Faustain fairytale features a poor charcoal burner, Peter Monk, who encounters two forest spirits, the eponymous ‘Little Glass Man’ and the giant Dutch Michael, unfortunately he strikes a bargain with the wrong spirit. £200.00