
Lot 3284
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Starter package for a bibliophile antiquariat Press prints. 17 partly numbered copies, partly with illustrations of various modern artists, also in original graphics. 8° to 4°. Mostly covers. 1909-1953. The Prisma I/II. 1) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Faust. OLeder (due to material as usual a little brittle and partly rubbed off) with blind embossing. Jena, Eugen Diederichs, 1909. - Anniversary edition, one of 1000 copies. - 2) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. West-eastern divan. With rich book jewellery by Marcus Behmer. Dark green OSaffian with rich gold plating. Leipzig, Insel, 1910. - One of 1200 copies on Bütten (total edition: 1300). - 3) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Iphigenia on Tauris. OPergament. Leipzig, Rowohlt, 1911. - 11. - 4) Oscar A. H. Schmitz. Hashish. Stories. With 13 illustrations by Kubin. OPapp tape (something rubbed). Münche, Georg Müller, 1913. - One of 800 copies. - 5) William Shakespeare. Hamlet. OHalf calving leather with rich gilding by Emil Rudolf Weiss in OSchuber (blassed). Jena, Eugen Diederichs, 1919. - 6) Gottfried Keller. Seven legends. OHalf-perchment with gold embossing. Size 4°. Zurich, Rascher, 1919. - 7) Else Lasker student. The Malik. It's an imperial story. Obroschur. Berlin, Paul Cassirer, 1919. - 8) Rabindranath Tagore. The Spring Circle. Semi-perchment d. C. (Obroschur integrated). Munich, Kurt Wolff, (1920). Pressure of the NF of the Drugulin prints. - 9) Anton Chekhov. The Persian Order and other grotesques. With eight woodcuts by W. N. Massjutin. OHalf line. Berlin, Welt-Verlag, 1922. - 10) Wilde, Oscar. The infant's birthday and other fairy tales. From Ernst Sander's English. With lithographs by Ludwig Kainer. OHalfleder, Leipzig and Berlin, Hans Heinrich Tillgner, 1922. - 11) Morris Rosenfeld. Songs of the ghetto. With drawings by E. M. Lilien. 3. ==References== OLone (slightly loaded). Berlin around 1922. - 12) Oscar Wilde. The infant's birthday. With stone drawings by Ludwig Kainer. Illustrator. OHalf leather. Berlin, Heinrich Tillgner, 1922. - Volume I/II of Prisma Prints. - 13) Grete Steinecke. The dead king. With 2 original etchings by Walter Steinecke. Lemgo, private print by Oscar Mai, 1922. - One of 200 numbered copies signed by author and artist in DV. - 14) Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Try Victor. O.R. Tape. Munich, Bremen Presse, 1925. - 15) Moriz Sondheim. Richard de Bury. A contribution to the psychology of collecting books. Ohalf-perchment. Frankfurt am Main, Hausdruckerei der Bauerschen Gießerei, (1926). - 1. Pressure in the Bodoni Italics. - 16) Hesiod. Works and Days. Mainz, Mainz Presse, (1930). OHalf Perchment and OHalbleinen with OSchuber. - Two copies, edition 1000. - Print of the Mainz press. - 17) Fritz Ernst. From Zurich to Weimar. Hundred years of sustained growth 1732-1832. OHalf-maroquine with gilding (back fades). Munich, Artemis, 1953. - Volume I of the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana. – Every now and then little traces of use, mostly very nice preserved. – Supplement.
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Press Prints — The Infant's Birthday and Other Fairy Tales
Lot of 17 bibliophile press prints. 1909-1953. Includes Goethe's Faust and West-östlicher Divan. Various bindings.
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- Lot #
- 3284
- Currency
- EUR
- Location
- Berlin, DE
- Lot Ends
- 8 Oct 2026, 23:59:59
- Auction Ends
- 8 Oct 2026, 23:59:59
- Lots in Auction
- 394