Thoma, Ludwig — Jozef Filsers Briefwexel

R Piper & Co, München 1953 reprint. Cloth, G. 237pp, 22pp b/w facsimile letters, 32 b/w illustrations by Eduard Thöny, cloth spotted & marked, spine yellowed. A satire on the provincialism and the clerical politics of pre First World War Bavaria, written by Ludwig Thoma [ 1867 - 1921 ] the German author, publisher and editor. He gained popularity through his partially exaggerated description of everyday Bavarian life, such as this work which was first published in 1912.