Sep 25, 2008 - Sale 2155

Sale 2155 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
LEWIS, SINCLAIR. Autograph Letter Signed, to "Mr. Karmazin," responding on behalf of his wife with recommendations of works translated from the German by his wife, Ludwig Lewisohn, and by Cedar and [Maurice] Eden Paul. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet, "The Berkshire [Hotel]" stationery; remnants of prior mounting along bottom edge of second page, folds, minor wrinkles. New York, 29 September no year
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". . . Besides 'Job,' [my wife] has translated only 'The Song Book of J.L. Wetcheek,' of Feuchtwanger. . . . An admirable translation into English is Cedar & Eden Paul's English "Jew Süss," also from Feuchtwanger, and another Ludwig Lewisohn's one or two translations from Jakob Wassermann."