Umlauf-Lamatsch, Annelies "Pilzmärchen" [Jugend und Volk, 1925] Mushroom Fairy Tales

UMLAUF-LAMATSCH, Annelies. Pilzmärchen. Wien-Leipzig-New York: Deutscher Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1925. First edition. 9" x 7", 56pp with 4 full-page color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Ernst Kutzer. Publisher's original pictorial paper-covered boards with red cloth spine. Moderate rubbing and edge wear to the binding, most noticeable at the corners and extremities, with a few small scuffs to the front board. Interior clean and complete with all four color plates present. Pages lightly toned as expected. Binding sound. Gift inscription on FFEP. Very Good. A charming and uncommon Austrian children's fantasy in which anthropomorphic mushrooms, dwarfs, witches, woodland creatures, and fairy folk inhabit an enchanted forest. Annelies Umlauf-Lamatsch's imaginative tales are complemented throughout by Ernst Kutzer's whimsical illustrations, including four vibrant color plates and numerous black-and-white drawings. An attractive and increasingly collectible early twentieth-century illustrated children's book, preserved here in its original pictorial binding.