Octavo red cloth spined boards with gilt spine title, large pictorial onlay to cover (spine with small hinge vents/gilt dulled/tips worn/bit soiled but entirely sound) 120pp. Publisher's book list on Endpapers and name Margarthe Hirte, Drebhau on fly leaf. Usual paper foxing/browning. Two leaves with brown ink spill wiped away but entirely readable, three leaves with edge-tears without loss so some signs of use but neat and tight. *Tales of stolen children, friendships and though one story ends in a death it is redeemed by a marriage. German text.