<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/deff413c-42fd-4727-8408-6d9715759387/094435D9-C91A-46A4-80D8-2973634F03EF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html" href="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html" style="font-size: 11px;">ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/img/101239F7-7AB2-4836-AF27-0E6867953916" alt="01 Der Orchideengarten, 1919, German magazine cover" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html"><DIV>This post features the covers of the first fourteen issues of <SPAN>Der Orchideengarten</SPAN>. I managed to score a bound set of these issues from a German book dealer last year. (Sometimes I can't believe my good luck... other times I can't believe the magnitude of my mania for weird books.)<BR /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html"><DIV>In his <A href="http://www.amazon.com/fantasy-Illustrated-History-Dracula-Tolkien/dp/0020535600"><SPAN>Fantasy Book</SPAN></A> (1978),<A href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-Mirror-Other-Stories-Anthology/dp/0819568317"> Franz Rottensteiner</A> gives the story behind <SPAN>Der Orchideengarten</SPAN>:</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/img/333C9B06-03EE-46F7-8DC9-21D98CF85715" alt="02 Der Orchideengarten, 1919, German magazine cover" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/img/4E95D80F-9D63-4573-B564-4FDF1EF7BB69" alt="03 Der Orchideengarten, 1919, German magazine cover" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/img/D7CB38A7-0CD9-4F78-828D-491913A2804C" alt="05 Der Orchideengarten, 1919, German magazine cover" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/img/FA5F5E22-D631-4848-B310-8E3B8D6427EF" alt="06 Der Orchideengarten, 1919, German magazine cover" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/img/26D9528F-86DD-4DBC-9D71-E46A373FE461" alt="07 Der Orchideengarten, 1919, German magazine cover" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/img/91DEA95A-60B1-47E1-AC39-BB8BF5F0596E" alt="08 Der Orchideengarten, 1919, German magazine cover" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/img/3E144D45-4E35-4F28-AD1A-A5EDF2C8B661" alt="09 Der Orchideengarten, 1919, German magazine cover" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/img/49A46535-1BA7-4D24-BDD8-E7CB733D1420" alt="10 Der Orchideengarten, 1919, German magazine cover" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/img/563B9062-B640-405B-9046-6B15F6641A8A" alt="11 Der Orchideengarten, 1919, German magazine cover" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2009/07/worlds-first-fantasy-magazine-der.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/img/3A0B2274-8EA1-481E-B184-0A37109A38AB" alt="12 Der Orchideengarten, 1919, German magazine cover" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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