Small 8vo. Volume I: 544 pp. / Volume II: 584 pp. contemporary decorated cloth, previous owner’s name stamped on first page of Volume I, light spotting to first 3 leaves of Volume II, Karl May Verlag, Dresden, no date, circa, 1900.

Synopsis

From the book series Carl May’s Gesammelte Reiseromane, later entiteld Karl May’s Gesammelte Reiseerzählungen, 33 volumes were published from 1892 to 1910 in the press of Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld. Karl Friedrich May (1842-1912) was a popular German writer, noted mainly for adventure novels set in the American Old West (best known for the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand) and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East (with Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef Omar).