Charles scheffel (4 Ergebnisse)

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Trubner & Co.,1872. Hard Cover. No dust jacket. Cover has mild shelfwear, corners and spine ends rubbed, minor soiling, spine darkened. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly toned. Binding is tight. Very nice copy.

hardcover. Zustand: Wie neu. 104 Seiten; Annette Betz - 2018 : Vincent Cuvellier - gb - 10-44-1 0D-84UA-2NWS Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

hardcover. Zustand: Gut. 104 Seiten; 9783219115611.3 Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The poem (24 lines in six stanzas) is written out on the letterhead 'Leam, | Leamington'. 1p., 12mo, with the blank second leaf of the bifolium tipped-in onto an 8vo leaf. An excellent translation of the well-known German drinking song, beginning: 'In the Black Whale of Ascalon |rank day by day, | Till straight as any broom handle | Upon the floor he lay.' The last stanza reads: 'In the Black Whale of Ascalon | No prophet hath renown, | And he who there would drink in peace | Must pay the money down.' Laid down above this item, on the same 8vo leaf, is the dedication, on a piece of 8 x 14 cm paper. With bright red initials in the style of a mediaeval manuscript it reads: 'Written for Miss Field | Easter Sunday | 1871 | Charles G. Leland.' 'Miss Field' was a relation (probably the niece) of Leland's college friend Leonard Field, for whom see Field's 'Memoirs': 'In April [1871] we went to Leamington to pay a visit to a Mr. Field, where we also met his brother, my old friend Leonard Field, whom I had known in Paris in 1848.' For more on Field, see his obituary in The Times, 25 April 1903. The present translation would appear in Leland's 'Gaudeamus!' (1872).…