The Hideout. This item is unavailable.The Hideout

8vo. Translated from the German. Originally published under the title "Maisfrieden." First edition stated, full number line. Quarter tan cloth, green paper boards. 183 p.p. B&W illustrated half-title, frontis., and endpiece. Light bumping to spine ends of boards and dust jacket. DJ is price clipped. A very attractive copy. In the last year of World War II, a girl is found amid the rubble of a German city. All she knows is her first name: Rebecca. The authorities ship her to an orphanage, but along the way, when her train is stopped by an air raid, she flees to a cornfield. This is a remarkable book, both in its treatment of wartime reality and of alternate fantasy worlds.