Published by Lutheran Book Concern, Columbus, OH, 1900
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Color Lithographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 119 pages; Circa [1900] Lutheran Book Concern; Columbus, OH. Soundly bound in original red quarter cloth backed spine over paper covered boards with color litho pictorial title panel mounted to the cover board. Collects three short works, each with a separate title but paged continuously. Illustrated with several color lithographed plates. Prior ownership penciled to front endpage. Mild shelf soiling to rear board. VG or better.
NY: Verlag von Ernst Kaufmann, [c.1898]. Brown cloth, light brown spine lettered in gilt. pictorial paper label on front cover. Four chromolithographic plates. Marginal stains to final leaves. pencil on end papers and a few pages, basically very good otherwise. Worldcat cites a Berlin edition of 1897, and we see elsewhere reference to another of 1898. Three stories in German. The front cover illustration is of a black woman playing a violin, illustrating the anonymous first story [Dina's Fiddle Bow]. The second story, Heinrich Loschen und Sohn, is by M. Rickmeyer. The third, Unser Kleiner Diener, is "Aus dem Englischen Ubersetzt von S. Krakewitz".