Books

DEFOE (Daniel): Rabinzon Kruzo / Robinson Crusoe. Translated from the English into Belarussian by Svyataslau Kousch (Camp Commander)]. Watenstedt-Immendorf: issued by a Camp for Displaced Persons, 1947. Hectographic illustrations, possibly original designs but it could also be copying previously published images. hectographic illustrated paper covers, stapled An Illustrated Hectographic Typescript.

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, is one of the earliest and most influential novels in the history of English literature. It is a fictional autobiography of the title character, a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story is widely perceived as a comment on the British Imperialism of the age and the emerging ideology of the 'self-made man', and it reflects on the author's vast array of experiences.

The first edition of Robinson Crusoe was published without Defoe's name on it, and is titled 'The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventure of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates.' Identification is typically through comparison with known first edition features (typeset, errors, page count, publisher details, etc).