First German Edition, first printing. Publisher: Leipzig Berlag Rienreich 1919. 8 ov (5" x 7") [xii] 7-246 pp.[7 pages ads]. Illustration of Pan on tan cloth with tan lettering over blue background. Publisher's logo decorated pastedowns and end papers. No dust jacket.

Book Condition: Very Good+. Major flaw is the spine cover is missing. End papers are browned. Binding tight is spite of missing spine cover. "Lillg" written in pen at beginning of text. Text pages are bright.

A collection 11 short stories. Paul Busson (1873–1924) was a Tyrolean and Viennese journalist and author. He is well-known as perhaps the finest adventure fantasy in early twentieth-century German literature. The story of reincarnated memories in eighteenth-century Germany and France, it offers a fine integration of supernatural powers, ghosts, witchcraft, black magic, demons, and evocation of the dead. It is unique in its combination of wild imagination and realism.

An extremely rare true first edition.