One was printed in 1959, the other is only numbered. He is also quite a
good painter, there are some reproductions at the end of the book of his
landscapes and several drawings in pencil, mainly of sleeping cats -
probably the only ones who stayed there still for a long long time...
On Jan 7, 2008 1:59 AM, Pierre Joris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I grew up with those Wilhelm Busch works (still have some other,
> beautiful edition my father bought in the fifties, somewhere or other)
> & remember them most fondly – Pierre
>
> On Jan 5, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Anny Ballardini wrote:
>
> > I found this morning the complete works by Wilhelm Busch, two second-
> > hand
> > volumes, thick red and black books of over 2,000 pages. The price
> > was not
> > that low but they were irresistible, on Project Gutenberg you can
> > see some
> > of his incredible satires:
> >
> > http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17161/17161-h/17161-h.htm
> >
> > --
> > Anny Ballardini
> > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
> > http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
> > I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a
> > dancing
> > star!
>
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