216 pp + publisher's catalog, 8vo (8 7/16" H). Profusely illustrated with Busch's b&w cartoons. Bilingual text (English/German). "Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), endowed with an equipotent facility with sketch-pad and rhyming dictionary, created during his career some of the most arresting sketches and drollest verses the world has ever seen. Few men since his time have shown the same ability to match simple yet penetrating pictures with rollicking, quotable verse. In his native Germany he is still by all odds the best-loved creator of illustrated light verse. (Many of his pithy aphorisms have long... View More...
