GRIMMELSHAUSEN, Hans Jakob Christoph von. Simplicissimus the vagabond: that is-the life of a strange adventurer named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim: namely where and in what manner he came into this world, what he saw, learned, experienced, and endured therein, also why he again left it of his own free will: exceedingly droll and very advantageous to read

(London and New York): George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.  and E.P. Dutton & Co., 1924.  First edition thus. Octavo.  22cm by 14.5cm.  377 pages.  Translated by A.T.S. Goodrick ; with an introduction by William Rose.   Originally published in 1668, the work is regarded as the first adventure novel in the German language and the first German novel masterpiece.  This is a very good copy in brown cloth with leather spine, title label to spine.  Issued as part of Broadway Translations series.