Linke (Lilo) Restless Flags
£375
London, Constable, 1935.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket.
An autobiographical account of a middle-class German girl living between the First & Second World Wars, experiencing the optimism of the Weimar Republic and the crushing onslaught of National Socialism.
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Book very good; jacket with some edge wear and chipping, but overall very good.
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