[Rarebooks] FS: Oncle Hansi, Le Paradis Tricolore (1918 World War I children's book)

[Robin Bledsoe]

For your consideration, offered here first:

Oncle Hansi./Le Paradis Tricolore: Petites Villes et Villages de 
l’Alsace déjà delivrée . . . . /Paris : H. Floury, 1918. First 
edition.$100. (trade discount)

French children’s book containing “un peu de texte et beaucoup d’images 
pour les petits enfants alliés.” It celebrates the small “happy” area of 
Alsace, which escaped German “brutality” during World War I because it 
was liberated by French troops in 1914 (the towns of Thann, Massevaux, 
Dannemarie, and others). “Oncle Hansi” was native Alsatian Jean-Jacques 
Waltz, the popular cartoonist and illustrator later persecuted for his 
anti-German views.

N.p., over 30 brightly colored illustrations by the author (8 
full-page). Bound in striped and floral cloth (soiled; lacks cover label 
and slipcase).Gatherings separating at bottom, but binding is well 
stitched.Content very good and clean. Scans available on request.

Not yet listed on our online sites.

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