Lot 949
Ö. v. Horváth, Das Buch der Tänze. München 1922. - With a personal dedication by the author.
Estimate
€ 2.000
Starting Price
€ 1.300
Lot:
949
Category:
Literature of the 20th century
Artist:
Ödön von Horváth
Horváth, Ödön von: Das Buch der Tänze. München: Oskar Groß für den Schahin-Verlag 1922. 22,6 x 15,2 cm. 40 pp., 1 l., 1 w. l. Original paperback (without the cover label).
(Cover rubbed, discoloured, with numerous damage to the edges. Water stain running along the top edge. Discoloured.)
Wilpert/Gühring 1. - No. 70 of 500 hand-numbered copies of the special edition. Signed by the author in the colophon. - First edition of this now almost lost debut work, which was written at the suggestion of the composer Siegfried Kallenberg, who also composed the music for it. The volume brings together Ödön von Horváth’s first literary publications: ‘Märchen’, ‘Das Teehausmädchen’, ‘Pestballade’, ‘Harem’, ‘Asket’, ‘Die Perle’ and ‘Groteske: Episode in China’. - On 7 February 1922, the texts were read in public for the first time as part of the ‘First Evening of the Kallenberg Society’, accompanied by Kallenberg’s music and recited by Annie Marée. Four years later, the play’s world premiere took place at the Osnabrück Theatre – to scathing reviews. The critics panned the work, and Horváth himself eventually turned his back on his early opus. In 1926, he bought up the remaining stock still in bookshops and had it destroyed. ‘Furthermore, he “removed” copies of the book from public libraries and personally contacted owners of the book known to him to secure their return. Using every means at his disposal, he sought to eradicate any memory of this, his first attempt. With success. For decades, Horváth’s first book remained lost” (T. Krischke, Horváth. Child of His Time, p. 37). Horváth’s literary debut was thus almost completely wiped from existence and is, for that very reason, one of the rarest testimonies to his early days as a writer. - With a personal dedication to Emil Walther Hauck in green ink on the flyleaf, dated February 1922.
(Cover rubbed, discoloured, with numerous damage to the edges. Water stain running along the top edge. Discoloured.)
Wilpert/Gühring 1. - No. 70 of 500 hand-numbered copies of the special edition. Signed by the author in the colophon. - First edition of this now almost lost debut work, which was written at the suggestion of the composer Siegfried Kallenberg, who also composed the music for it. The volume brings together Ödön von Horváth’s first literary publications: ‘Märchen’, ‘Das Teehausmädchen’, ‘Pestballade’, ‘Harem’, ‘Asket’, ‘Die Perle’ and ‘Groteske: Episode in China’. - On 7 February 1922, the texts were read in public for the first time as part of the ‘First Evening of the Kallenberg Society’, accompanied by Kallenberg’s music and recited by Annie Marée. Four years later, the play’s world premiere took place at the Osnabrück Theatre – to scathing reviews. The critics panned the work, and Horváth himself eventually turned his back on his early opus. In 1926, he bought up the remaining stock still in bookshops and had it destroyed. ‘Furthermore, he “removed” copies of the book from public libraries and personally contacted owners of the book known to him to secure their return. Using every means at his disposal, he sought to eradicate any memory of this, his first attempt. With success. For decades, Horváth’s first book remained lost” (T. Krischke, Horváth. Child of His Time, p. 37). Horváth’s literary debut was thus almost completely wiped from existence and is, for that very reason, one of the rarest testimonies to his early days as a writer. - With a personal dedication to Emil Walther Hauck in green ink on the flyleaf, dated February 1922.