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Eichendorff, Joseph Baron v.

From the life of a good-for-nothing.

Munich, Hans von Weber 1914

29 x 19.5 cm. 121 pages. With 29 (including 5 full-page and color) original lithographs by Emil Preetorius. Original parchment binding with spine and cover titles and a silhouette portrait of Eichendorff on the front cover. (Signed: H. Fikentscher, Leipzig). - One of approximately 20 copies with an additional, inscribed and signed suite of all original lithographs by Emil Preetorius. Sixth and final Hyperion printing, one of 500 numbered copies. This one printed in name for Ernst Schulte-Strathaus, the founder of the Munich Bibliophile Society. The novella, published in 1822, is considered the best-known work of the Romantic writer Joseph von Eichendorff. Immaculately preserved and very rare in this form. - Rodenberg 415. - Schauer, Volume II, 63.

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