Die Oesterreich - Ungarische Armee. 204 Abbildungen in Farbdruck
Leipzig: Moritz Ruhl, n/d. Softcover. Ex-libris Robert Florey: Robert Florey (1900-1979) was a French screenwriter, director of short films, and actor who moved to Hollywood in 1921. Florey worked as assistant director to Josef von Sternberg, Frank Borzage, and Victor Fleming before making his feature directing debut in 1926. He turned out more than 50 movies over the next 23 years, from the first Marx Brothers movie "The Cocoanuts" (1929), to horror movies such as "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1932) starring Bela Lugosi, to skillful low-budget crime programmers like "The Crooked Way" (1949).
16mo. Foldout of 15 unpaginated plates. Wrappers with color paste-on to front wrapper. Magnificently illustrated work on the Austrian-Hungarian Army, with 13 full-page color chromolithographs. Text part missing. Ex-libris Robert Florey (see above) and Hugo Thiele, with a stamp of the latter to front wrapper and title page. Scuffing, rubbing, creasing, staining to wrappers. Text in German. In good condition. g. Item #16077
Price: $150.00