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The Story of My Life, A Translation from the Original German of the Autobiography of Friedrich Schuenemann-Pott as Made by His Daughter, Ida Denicke

The Story of My Life, A Translation from the Original German of the Autobiography of Friedrich Schuenemann-Pott as Made by His Daughter, Ida Denicke

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The Story of My Life, A Translation from the Original German of the Autobiography of Friedrich Schuenemann-Pott as Made by His Daughter, Ida Denicke

by Schuenemann-Pott, Friedrich; Denicke, Ida (Translator)

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San Francisco: Privately Printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No. 95 of 100, quarto size, 140 pp., signed by Ida Denicke. Friedrich Schuenemann-Pott dedicated his life to the freedom of religious thought and the "fundamental right of the human mind". This translation from the original German published in 1873 was done by Schuenemann-Pott's daughter, Ida Denicke, while in her eighties (n. b., info from Denicke's Foreword).

___DESCRIPTION: Quarter blue leather with blue linen-finish paper boards, red leather spine label with gold lettering, photographic frontispiece of Friedrich Schuenemann-Pott with lettered tissue guard, title page in red and black, fourteen decorative initial capitals throughout; quarto size (10.75" tall), 140 pp., signed by Ida Denicke, one of 100 copies, this no. 95.

___CONDITION: Volume is very good, with a bright and clean text block, paper boards show some sunning and minor wear to corners, leather spine has heavy rubbing but is intact with bright blue and red colour.

___CITATION: Grabhorn Press Bibliography, no. 267.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
16072506
Title
The Story of My Life, A Translation from the Original German of the Autobiography of Friedrich Schuenemann-Pott as Made by His Daughter, Ida Denicke
Author
Schuenemann-Pott, Friedrich; Denicke, Ida (Translator)
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Limited Edition
Publisher
Privately Printed at the Grabhorn Press
Place of Publication
San Francisco
Date Published
1937
Keywords
Fine Press, Grabhorn Press, Biography, German, Signed, Hand-set, Limited Edition

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