Lot 1752
A. Graf Gobineau / H. Steiner-Prag, Die Liebenden von Kandahar. Berlin 1923.
Estimate
€ 300
Starting Price
€ 200
Lot:
1752
Category:
Illustrated Books, portfolios and art literature until 1945
HUGO STEINER-PRAG
ARTHUR GRAF GOBINEAU: Die Liebenden von Kandahar. Deutsch von Franz Werner Schmidt. Berlin: Franz Schneider [1923]. 26,7 x 18,5 cm. Includes 6 signed original etchings and three etched vignettes by H. Steiner-Prag. 56 pp., 2 leaves. Red calfskin with a back label and rich spine decor, gold-stamped vignette on the cover and gilt raised edges, signed ‘Handeinband Fritzsche A.-G.’.
(Slightly worn and scuffed. Slight fingerprint marks; a printing mark on the reverse with a smudge caused by the insert.)
No. 19 of 200 copies on handmade paper, signed in the printer’s mark by Steiner-Prag; the full-page etchings are individually signed. – Sennewald 217, 23.2 (contrary to the printer’s mark, according to Sennewald the first 100 copies also contain a signed lithograph).
ARTHUR GRAF GOBINEAU: Die Liebenden von Kandahar. Deutsch von Franz Werner Schmidt. Berlin: Franz Schneider [1923]. 26,7 x 18,5 cm. Includes 6 signed original etchings and three etched vignettes by H. Steiner-Prag. 56 pp., 2 leaves. Red calfskin with a back label and rich spine decor, gold-stamped vignette on the cover and gilt raised edges, signed ‘Handeinband Fritzsche A.-G.’.
(Slightly worn and scuffed. Slight fingerprint marks; a printing mark on the reverse with a smudge caused by the insert.)
No. 19 of 200 copies on handmade paper, signed in the printer’s mark by Steiner-Prag; the full-page etchings are individually signed. – Sennewald 217, 23.2 (contrary to the printer’s mark, according to Sennewald the first 100 copies also contain a signed lithograph).