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You are bidding on one antique German book, "Ein Volk von Genies" (A Nation of Geniuses) by Lothar von Kunowski. This book was published by Eugen Diederichs in Leipzig, Germany in 1901 and is the first volume of the two-volume set "Through Art to Life". The book has attractive Judendstil decoration on the title page and other pages.
This book is in good condition, the binding is tight and close, the cover has several scuffs from being handled. Inside, one end page is torn loose; it has the hand-written annotation "Heinrich Gebbard Boston 1902".