Mother Courage — Johann von Grimmelshausen, illustrated by Fritz Wegner (Folio Society, 1965)

Description

The Folio Society's 1965 edition of Johann von Grimmelshausen's picaresque 17th-century novel Mother Courage (Courasche) — the Thirty Years' War tale that inspired Brecht — translated by Walter Wallich with lift-ground drawings by Fritz Wegner. Oatmeal linen boards printed with a bold navy silhouette of a canteen wagon and a train of soldiers, gilt-lettered spine, in its original slipcase. Second-hand, in good vintage condition with light foxing.