Folio. 48 sheets, printed on one side. With 48 original lithographs, the first of which is signed. Original yellow half-linen binding with cord binding and cover illustration. In an illustrated original case. One of 200 numbered copies on chamois-colored laid paper. The publisher's imprint and the first lithograph, "Zille im Regenzeichnet," are signed by the artist. When the Zwanglosen Geschichten und Bilder (Informal Stories and Pictures) were published in a small, numbered edition by Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin in 1919, this magnificent work was confiscated. In the many signatures on his sheets, in the humoresques, novelettes, mood pictures, sketches, and anecdotes, Heinrich Zille is a master of language, a master of Berlin milieu depictions and situational comedy of outstanding virtuosity. Image and text form an indissoluble unity that serves as more than just a competent dictionary of Berlin wit and dialect. Thanks to the original box, the book is in absolutely mint condition. The New Picture Books, Series II (5th Printing). - Rosenbach 61. - Hayn/Gotendorf IX,640.