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Lot #    18452
Auction End Date    7/10/2007 11:02:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Morgensonne Morgenland: Schildereien
Author    [First Ed.] Roda Roda
City    Berlin
Publisher    Wegweiser=Verlag G.m.b.H.
Publication Date    1922
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 290 pp., illus., 108:83 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original boards, rubbed.
          
Paragraph 1    Illustrations by Max Pretzfelder. Interestingly, the term Morgenland refers to the area where the sun rises (i.e. the East). This book is fairly rare, as WorldCat lists only two libraries worldwide that hold this title. It is part of a series entitled : Volksverband der Bücherfreunde. Sonderreihe,; v. 7, pt. 7;
          
Detailed
Description		    Alexander Roda Roda (Sándor Friedrich Ladislaus Rosenfeld; April 13, 1872–August 20, 1945) was an Austrian author and humorist. Born in Zdenci, Slavonia, he was the son of a Jewish landowner and of a non-Jewess. From 1892 Roda Roda was an officer in the Imperial Austrian army, but was dishonorably discharged ten years later because of his unacceptable opinions. He then became a journalist and, as a roving foreign correspondent, traveled through Western Europe, serving on the Austrian front during World War I. He worked in the U.S.S.R. and other countries until 1933, when he severed his connection with the German-language press, and in 1939 emigrated to the U.S., where he remained until his death. A prolific writer of comedies, satirical novels, and short stories, Roda Roda contributed to humorous magazines such as the Simplizissimus of Munich and was an outstanding exponent of the Viennese comic art. He excelled in lampooning the old Hapsburg Kaiserreich and is best remembered for Der Feldherrnhuegel (1910), a comedy about the Austrian officer caste written in collaboration with Carl Roessler which was suppressed by government censors. His other works include Der Schnaps, der Rauchtabak und die verfluchte Liebe (1908), a best-selling novel; the autobiographical Roda Rodas Roman (1925, 1950); Die Panduren (1935); and Die rote Weste (1945). He edited, in collaboration, a six-volume anthology of world humor (1910–11); and a collected edition of his works, in three volumes, appeared in 1932–34.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Literature
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica