E Hampfle Chrut u Uchrut us Gruppner-Chrigel's Garte [Weeds and wild blossoms from untilled garden]

Marty, Carl

Monroe, WI: Green County Herold, 1922. Paperback. 159p. paperback, spine edges worn, minor stains to cover, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, with bookseller's penciled annotation identifying Marty's significance.

Poetry in Swiss-German (Schweizerdeutsch) by the Chicago-based Swiss immigrant cheese-maker, followed by a brief section of English poems. His Carl Marty & Co. was the largest producer of swiss cheese in the United States at the time of its sale to Borden in 1938.

Cat.No: 288482

Price: $50.00