778 - Hebel, Johann Peter
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Estimate €700 - €1,000

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Hebel, Johann Peter A Little Treasure Chest for the Rhenish Friend. Tübingen, Cotta, 1811. viii, 296 pp. Contemporary paperback with original binding and original title label (spine stained and rubbed). First edition. – Goedeke VII, 541, 11.B.a – Borst 1135 – Neufforge p. 263 – A collection of 128 short stories and anecdotes from the years 1803 to 1811 from the Baden provincial almanac *Rheinländischer Hausfreund*. - ‘This *Hausfreund* … would suffice to secure Hebel a place of honour in German literature for all time. This golden folksiness in language, style and content has scarcely been equalled, let alone surpassed, to date …’ (ADB 11, 192). Hebel was esteemed as a storyteller, a significant moralist and an Enlightenment thinker not only by Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch and Kurt Tucholsky; *Das Schatzkästlein* is considered one of Kafka’s favourite books. – Bookplate on the inside cover, slightly foxed.

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778 - Hebel, Johann Peter See original version (German)

778 - Hebel, Johann Peter
See original version (German)