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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus. Gerlachs Jugendbücherei, no. 26. Squarish 8vo. Red cloth, "Mauskäfer" endpapers. Very good copy. Illustrations by Ernst Liebenauer. Text overseen by Hans Fraungruber. There is no common name in English for the Mauskäfer (Dermestes murinus), so called in Latin and German for its mouse-gray color. Why such an unappealing beetle was loved by the Gerlach designers is anybody's guess. The Schildbürger tales are a series of stories about the inhabitants of the fictional town of Schilda, who are notorious for their naivety and immunity to logical thinking. Towns full of dummies are a common motif in folk literature. The stories were first collected in book form at the end of the 1500s.…