Nückel’s wordless novel, Schicksal, was republished in English as Destiny in 1930 with separate publications in New York and the UK having different coloured dust jackets.

  • Title: Destiny- A Novel In Pictures
  • Author and Illustrator: Otto Nückel
  • Date: 1930
  • Dust jacket: Yes
  • slipcase: nothing to indicate it came with a slipcase
  • Binding: hard cover
  • Cover: full cloth
  • Language: English titles, etc
  • Paginated: unpaginated
  • Printed: recto
  • Edition: Trade only, not limited
  • Presumably it was not printed from the lead cuts – they would have at least been steel faced
  • End papers: both the NY and UK editions have black end papers/paste down.

New York – black/red dust jacket; red cloth boards

  • Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart
  • Place of publication: New York
  • Printer: ?
  • Copyright: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
  • Size: 20.3H x 18W x 3 cm (8H x 7 1/8W x 1 1/8 inches)
Black paste down and FFEP
Black FFEP and a blank page
Title page. There does not seem to be a half-title page
Copyright 1930 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
End page
Rear FEP

London Blue/Yellow Dust Jacket

  • Publisher: Albert E. Marriott, ltd.
  • Place of publication: London
  • Printer: ?
  • Copyright page states “Copyright, 1930, by Farrar & Rhinehart Inc. Printed in the United States of America. All Rights Reserved”
  • Size: same as the NY edition
  • Release price: 8/6 net
Binding appears to be the same as the NY edition.
Title page
Copyright page

Sample Pages printed recto

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