Casper Hauser
by Wassermann, Jacob
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good +
- Seller
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. Very good +. 8vo, 467pp. 2nd printed Dec. 1929. Grey cloth, with black title on front cover and black title and black and gray abstract decoration on spine. Very good + in original dj with title in black on pink ground on front cover and in black on tan spine. Dj spine is a little sunned and marked. Internally, illustrated end papers and very light toning, o/w clean and bright. The story of the mysterious seventeen year old boy who appeared In Nurnberg (Nuremberg) Germany in May of 1828, dressed in rags and barely able to speak or walk and with a note addressed to the captain of the 4th squadron of the 6th cavalry regiment, in which the author asked the captain to take the boy in or hang him. The boy Casper, who may have been an heir to the House of Baden, was mysteriously murdered only 5 years later.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7493
- Title
- Casper Hauser
- Author
- Wassermann, Jacob
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Horace Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
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