Wilhelm Busch

Max und Moritz: Eine Bubengeschichte in Sieben Streichen - In deutschen Dialekten, Mittelhochdeutsch und Jiddisch.

Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1982. Edited, with an introduction and a bibliography, by Manfred Görlach. 3871185221 178 pages.

Volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.75", is bound in yellow cloth, with black lettering to spine and front cover. Front cover color illustration offers depiction of protagonists. Book shows light shelfwear, with sunning to spine. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright.

This illustrated story is an inventive, blackly humorous tale, told entirely in rhymed couplets, about two boys who play pranks. It was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch and published in 1865. It has here been translated into a number of German dialects, with eight parallel versions and a number of extracts.