Jaakobs Traum

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

BEER-HOFMANN, RICHARD

printer

S. Fischer Verlag

Place

Berlin

Publication

1918

Description

ONE OF 100 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Etched frontispiece by E.R. Weiss, signed in pencil by the artist

summary

First appearance of this play - the first in a trilogy - in which the playwright struggles with fundamental issues of Man’s purpose using the persona of the Biblical Jacob

Original crushed morocco gilt, spine in compartments, gilt dentelles and silk doublures, t.e.g. others uncut, silk end-papers defective, lightly worn and sunned, 8vo

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