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Londoner Notizen. Erster [- Zweiter] Band.

Seemingly a self-published book, the memoirs of a young Austrian abroad, typed up by the author himself, who apologises for the look of the final product in his preface. The young Zinterhof came to London in 1903 from Vienna in order to improve his English, working for Lord Walters. Or so he says. I have been unable to trace a Lord Walters at that time. Is the whole book actually an elaborate fiction which, in terms of composition (photographs etc.), prefigures the work of W. G. Sebald by almost 90 years? Typescript copy, 2 vols, thick 8vo (236 × 168 mm); vol. I: pp. [4], 00 , 00/a , 01 02a, 02b , 03 032, 134, 134a 134h, 8, 8/1 8/2, 8a 8f, 9 352 (some cut-out images from Madame Tussaud s pasted to pp. 269 276); with 5 black-and-white photographic illustrations pasted onto additional leaves, plus one small photograph, and another from a newspaper, loosely inserted; vol. II: pp. [8], 353 , 353a 353d, 354 813; with 6 black-and-white photographic illustrations pasted onto additional leaves; some numbered blanks between sections and at the end in each volume; contemporary cloth, spines lettered gilt; slipcase, a little worn.