Allerlei absonderliche Tiere, 40 Bilderbogen [All kinds of strange animals, 40 picture leaves], by Uriel Birnbaum. Vienna: Steyrermühl, [ca. 1926]. German.
A book comprising forty illustration leafs by Uriel Birnbaum, originally published in the Viennese weekly for children "Der Regenbogen" [rainbow], for which Birnbaum worked in the years 1925-1926. The illustrations (in German: Bilderbogen), are in the format of comic strip – each one is divided into six rectangles telling a story through pictures (each leaf about a different animal). Below each picture is a rhymed text in German.
OCLC lists one copy only.
83, [1] pp., 34 cm. Good condition. Some stains and damage. Tear to one leaf. Title page partly detached. Damage and stains to cover, tears to spine. Ownership ink stamps on two leaves.