KOBER, A. H. Star Turns. Trans. from the German by G. J. Reiner. London: Noel Douglas. 1928. 8vo. Publisher’s bright orange cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the fabulous dust jacket designed by Mendoza who illustrates the volume. About very good overall, the cloth just a trifle marked at extremities and perhaps slightly pushed, the binding tight and square, with some light spots to the textblock edges. Some usually very light scattered foxing sporadically throughout the volume. The dust jacket unclipped (8s 6d net) with several small nicks to most edges, some small closed tears and rubbing along joints and edges, the spine panel darkened somewhat.
The first book by the German academic which follows the mysteriously carefree circus caravan across the world. Kober was a qualified university professor at a time when Germany’s intellectual culture was flourishing. As such, many academics sough alternative careers, and Kober agreed on a post as publicity agent for the world-famous Circo Sarrasani on its first international tour, across South America. ‘Ten lions, twelve elephants, one hundred horses, twelve camels, six bears, six zebras, six bulls, and a hippopotamus, one hundred and ten motor cars and two score human beings on board the steamer Ludendorff!’, the journey begins. Kober goes on to explain the intricacies of many of the acts, how the performers dare to risk their lives and, perhaps most interestingly, the personal lives of this nomadic group. Scarce in the dust jacket.
KOBER, A. H. Star Turns. Trans. from the German by G. J. Reiner. London: Noel Douglas. 1928. 8vo. Publisher’s bright orange cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the fabulous dust jacket designed by Mendoza who illustrates the volume. About very good overall, the cloth just a trifle marked at extremities and perhaps slightly pushed, the binding tight and square, with some light spots to the textblock edges. Some usually very light scattered foxing sporadically throughout the volume. The dust jacket unclipped (8s 6d net) with several small nicks to most edges, some small closed tears and rubbing along joints and edges, the spine panel darkened somewhat.
The first book by the German academic which follows the mysteriously carefree circus caravan across the world. Kober was a qualified university professor at a time when Germany’s intellectual culture was flourishing. As such, many academics sough alternative careers, and Kober agreed on a post as publicity agent for the world-famous Circo Sarrasani on its first international tour, across South America. ‘Ten lions, twelve elephants, one hundred horses, twelve camels, six bears, six zebras, six bulls, and a hippopotamus, one hundred and ten motor cars and two score human beings on board the steamer Ludendorff!’, the journey begins. Kober goes on to explain the intricacies of many of the acts, how the performers dare to risk their lives and, perhaps most interestingly, the personal lives of this nomadic group. Scarce in the dust jacket.
