Peregrin and the Goldfish: A Picture Book

(Seidmann-Freud, Tom) illustrator. PEREGRIN AND THE GOLDFISH: A PICTURE BOOK by Tom Seidmann-Freud. Berlin: Peregrin Press; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to - 9" x 11-1/2". Tan cloth backed color pictorial matte paper covered boards with faint discoloration/spotting around the edges, one lower fore edge corner bumped and one with minor wear for what is a very beautiful and fresh copy of the book. Plain endpapers with a previous owner's neatly inked signature to FFEP. [25] pp. including [12] full page color illustrations by Seidmann-Freud. The book is a fantasy story about a boy named Peregrin and his pet goldfish, Nickeling. The OCLC listing notes the following from the book's dust jacket: "Printed in Germany with a story in English made up in America by some children who loved the pictures." Inner flap of dust jacket notes that the story is by Alice Dalgliesh of Teachers College, N.Y., based on the original German book titled Die Fischreise, "its German