The Singular Adventures of Baron Munchausen (The Heritage Press)

xli, 175 pp. By Rudolph Raspe and others. A definitive text edited, with an introduction by John Carswell. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. An eighteenth-century German nobleman, Baron Munchausen, experiences a series of amazing adventures. He arrives at the Turkish royal court, where he meets the Sultan, steals his whole treasury, and sails away from Turkey.