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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. A new book still in plastic. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Konrad Bernheimer is four years old when in 1954 his grandfather takes him back to Munich from Venezuela where the Jewish family had fled from the Nazis – back to the place where the Bernheimers were once well-known as art and antiques dealers and where they now have to start anew. There in the salon of his grandfather stands a narwhal tusk the talisman of the family which accompanies them through all their ups and downs… In his lively and fascinating account of the history of his family a Ger- man-Jewish art dealer dynasty Konrad Bernheimer provides insights into the thrilling and unusual everyday life of an art dealer between Cranach and Rubens. (SP)