"Jeder Tag war schön" ("Every Day was beautiful") - a lavishly and lovingly designed east german travel book (about a journey between Antwerp and Bombay). With numerous mounted (pasted) supplements, facsimile (travel) letters - various typography, various colors. Wonderful, breath-taking book - printed like a handwritten diary. Sensational layout by: Heinz Bormann. MY HIGHEST RECOMMADATION. Welcome to the "GERMAN PHOTOBOOKS" auction by Ecki Heuser (5Uhr30.com, Cologne) - with more than 100 fantastic lots. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 BOOK IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Subtitle: "Erlebnisse, Träume, Geständnisse notiert zwischen Antwerpen und Bombay." ("Experiences, dreams, confessions noted between Antwerp and Bombay.") VEB Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock. 1966. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in linen (as issued, stencil printed original jute binding, at that time supplied by Jutespinnerei und -Weberei Meißen). 200 x 240 mm. 312 pages. Photos in color and in black and white. Photos: Andrew Thorndike. Layout: Heinz Bormann. Other contributor: Edith Wäscher. Text in German. Condition: Inside fresh and flawless with no marks and with no foxing. Outside partly yellowed (like so often). Overall fine condition. Highly impressive east-german photobook - in form of an original travel diary with drawings, facsimiles and sketches. SCARCE OPPORTUNITY and a MUST-HAVE photobook for every ambitous collection. "Annelie Thorndike was elected to the Volkskammer in 1963. From 1967 she was a member of the board and from 1980 a member of the presidium of the Association of Film and Television Workers of the GDR, founded by Andrew Thorndike. From 1973 to 1989 she was president of the committee of the International Leipzig Week for Documentary and Short Film, which was responsible for organising the Leipzig Dokfilmwoche." (Wikipedia)