?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
WITH AN ESSAY "A CHAT ABOUT MY BOOKPLATES" (CURIOSA.) Bayros, Franz von. Autograph Letter Signed, in English, to William R. A. Hays, his American publisher. Apparently the first letter since the end of the War, he writes about the effect of the war on his family, that he has broken with his publisher but has nevertheless been busy, and gives a bibliography of books and bookplates he produced in 1918 and 1919. Densely written in ink in his distinctive script; 4 pages, large 4to, on single folded sheet. accompanied by a 5-page manuscript essay "A Chat About My Bookplates." Karlsburg, 25 September Ny [but 1919]
"With us it has had the most disastrous and frightful consequences. In the same year my wife has lost her mother and brother, and is now herself on account of anxiety, grief and undefeeding, very ill..." He closes the letter by asking "are you agreed if I fix my price for an exlibris at 180 dollars?" The essay is densly written on 5 sheets, large 4to.
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