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NORTHERN EUROPE, LITERATURE -- 20th CENTURY. A collection of autograph letters and manuscripts, comprising:
Rudolf Georg BINDING (1867-1938). Autograph manuscript signed ('R.G.B.'), 10 December 1917, a short story, 'Wie ein Preußischer General einen Juden zum Offizier vorschlug', with emendations and cancellations, 5½ pages, folio;
and autograph manuscripts by Alfred DÖBLIN (autograph manuscript signed, the opening of an essay, 'Die beste Stunde der Lebendigkeit', one page, 4to) and Jakob Wassermann (a short story beginning 'Karl macht mir fast noch mehr Sorge als die Frau', 1 2/3 pages, 4to, numbered '5' and '6'), together with letters or cards signed by Rudolf BORCHARDT (1923), Karel CAPEK (in German, Prague, 1930), Stefan ZWEIG (inscribed visiting card, 1913, referring to Binding), Maximilian Harden (1907), Mechtilde, Fürstin Lichnowsky (27 February 1928, asking an editor not to change her article), Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti (1925, on two portrait postcards), Julius Stettenheim, Woldemar Klein, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Andrée Viollis, Max Kommerell (four, to Herbert Waniek, 1942-43), Karen Blixen (signed 'Tanne'), Frederika Bremer (in French) and Ernst Zahn, 20 items in total. (20)
Rudolf Georg BINDING (1867-1938). Autograph manuscript signed ('R.G.B.'), 10 December 1917, a short story, 'Wie ein Preußischer General einen Juden zum Offizier vorschlug', with emendations and cancellations, 5½ pages, folio;
and autograph manuscripts by Alfred DÖBLIN (autograph manuscript signed, the opening of an essay, 'Die beste Stunde der Lebendigkeit', one page, 4to) and Jakob Wassermann (a short story beginning 'Karl macht mir fast noch mehr Sorge als die Frau', 1 2/3 pages, 4to, numbered '5' and '6'), together with letters or cards signed by Rudolf BORCHARDT (1923), Karel CAPEK (in German, Prague, 1930), Stefan ZWEIG (inscribed visiting card, 1913, referring to Binding), Maximilian Harden (1907), Mechtilde, Fürstin Lichnowsky (27 February 1928, asking an editor not to change her article), Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti (1925, on two portrait postcards), Julius Stettenheim, Woldemar Klein, Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Andrée Viollis, Max Kommerell (four, to Herbert Waniek, 1942-43), Karen Blixen (signed 'Tanne'), Frederika Bremer (in French) and Ernst Zahn, 20 items in total. (20)
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