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"The
Pediscript: Notes From the Life of an Armless Man by C.
H. Unthan
with 30 illustrations- photographs. Narrative of the life of
a man of 75
years of age written by means of his feet"
This first edition
published
in German in1925 by Robert Lutz, Stuttgart. This 316 page hard
bound
book with light tan boards, dark maroon spine and dark maroon
oval on
the front with gold lettering. Spine is highly decorated in
gold filigree with a blue title label near the top and a orange
red
label
stating "Memorial Edition" near the bottom. This
copy, given to
Forbes by Dr. Seif at Harvard in the summer of 1929, introduced
Forbes to Carl Herman Unthan "The Armless Fiddler". |
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on the image to read the inscription. |
The
front end page has a description in English, written in pen
by J. Malcolm
Forbes. Forbes later wrote the preface
for the 1935 English edition, "The Armless Fiddler:
A Pediscript, Being The Life Story Of A Vaudeville Man" by
C. H. Unthan with a Preface by J. Malcom Forbes. 14 illustrations-photograhs.
Published by George Allen & Unwin LTd, Museum Street, London.
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