(Fantasy Adventure) MUCKI: EINE WUNDERLICHE WELTREISE FUR UNSRE KLEINEN [MUCKI: A WHIMSICAL TRIP AROUND THE WORLD FOR OUR LITTLE ONES] (code no. 551) rhymed and drawn by Arpad Schmidhammer. Mainz: Jos. Scholz, ca. 1904 (no indication of being a later printing). Folio - 9" x 12-1/8". Brown cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards with light wear to the fore edge corners for what is otherwise a remarkably well preserved copy of the book. Brown, green and white pictorial endpapers. [17] leaves; printed rectos only. This cautionary tale for children is about a young boy named Mucki, who despite his mother's warnings, gets above himself and is carried off on a series of adventures around the world by whales, sharks, buffalo, elephants, a pirate, crocodile, giraffe, etc. before finally being carried back home by a stork. If this wont make you listen to your mother, I don't know what will! This title, being one of Scholz' Kunstler-Bilderbucher, is beautifully illustrated on every page, with full color drawings within text, by Schmidhammer. Internally, the book is FINE. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. # 000659