> On 25 Jul 2021, at 09.11, David Mitchell <davidgrahammitch...@outlook.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> jens-helge.dah...@gmx.de wrote:
> 
>> From 1927 up to 1998 35 editions of 'Das Lustiges Papierfaltbuechlein' by 
>> Johanna Huber appeared. The first 1. edition from 1927 has 56 pages. In the 
>> years of world war II the editions were reduced to 39 pages. In the first 
>> years after the war the editions were reduced, too - again to 39 pages. The 
>> 11. edition in 1960 and the following 6 editions were enhanced to 72 pages. 
>> May be that is the point when the cover box came into the book. However, 
>> there is a further possibility for this because in 1980 there was a great 
>> change: Johanna Huber got a co-author - Christel Claudius - and the new 
>> edition became the first one with 124 pages. This edition was the base for 
>> the English translation.
> 
> Meanwhile Michel Grand has found the relevant page from the 1904 edition of  
> 'Handbüchlein der Papierfaltekunst' on a booksellers site and I have added it 
> to my page about the magazine cover box along with another publication from 
> 1926 from France that Michel also knew about.
Clearly Johanna Huber has published many folding books. I have "Ein lustiges 
Faltbuchlein mit allerhand Drum und Dran für Mütter und Kinder", no print year, 
but the Vorwort is signed January 1925. 56 pages plus a picture of Kleine 
Stadt. But no magazine cover box.

 

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