Die Bettlerin vom Pont des Arts
Munich, Germany: Hesperos-Verlag, 1921. Signed and numbered. Hardcover. vellum boards w/ color cover illustration. 169 pgs w/ 11 original, signed etchings. top edge gilt. Good+ (vellum boards have naturally curled from aging. boards highly scuffed, smudged & darkened. corners bumped & creased. textblock/pgs rippled. pgs have tanning to edges; darkened tanning to deckled edges previous bookstore pencil notations to cover pastdown & endpapers.). Item #182724
Frontispiece and plates throughout are signed by Carl Rabus. This is copy 77 of 200 signed by Rabus. Carl Rabus was a german expressionist whose early life was spent fleeing Nazi persecution and, eventually, escaping a detention camp in France. "Die Bettlerin vom Pont des Arts" translated as "The Beggar of the Pont des Arts" was written by Wilhelm Hauff, who was a famed writer of early 19th Century German literature. A rare copy.
OCLC: 250772742
Price: $1,000.00