Nov 14, 2017 - Sale 2462

Sale 2462 - Lot 108

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
DÖBLIN, ALFRED. Lydia und Mäxchen. Tiefe Verbeugung in einem Akt. 8vo, original blue-grey printed wrappers, backstrip faded and rubbed with small chips to head and foot, few pale stains; contents slightly yellowed; preserved in folding cloth portfolio. Strassburg und Leipzig: Josef Singer, 1906

Additional Details

first edition of döblin's first book-length literary publication. Signed "Erna" in pencil on the title, possibly Erna Weiss, the author's wife whom he married in 1912. Rare surviving example in the fragile wrappers with only one other copy traced at auction.