Description
Good+ dust jacket, a dust jacket protector has been added, wear at the edges, some soil, small chips along the edges. The Very Good binding is gray cloth over boards with black lettering on front cover and the spine, Two pages have a 1 1/2″ crease. Ink writing on the front pastedown dated 1949. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The black-and-white illustrations by Wanda Gag are great and can be found throughout the book. The price of $1.25 is still on the dust jacket.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
GONE IS GONE By Wanda Gág: “When I was a child,” says Wanda Gág, “my favorite funny Märchen was one about a peasant who wanted to do housework. I have never forgotten either the tale itself or the inimitable way in which it was told to me in German. Recently while reading Grimm’s Märchen with the idea of illustrating them, I could hardly wait to come upon that old peasant fairy tale of my childhood. To my surprise and disappointment, it was not in Grimm at all. One story did slightly resemble it, but it lacked the most dramatic incident and had a different central theme. No doubt this tale exists in some German collections. There must be English versions of it too, for by questioning various children, 1 found them to be familiar with it, but only vaguely so. From this I concluded that it had never been presented to them as it had been to me – that is, in a full-flavored, conversational style and with a sly peasant humor which has made the tale unforgettable to me. It was for this reason that I decided to make a little book of the story, consulting no other sources except one– my own memory of how the tale was told to me when I was a little girl.”
