Lot 444
Albert Ehrenstein – Book with Handwritten Poem, 1920
Die Gedichte, von Albert Ehrenstein. Leipzig-Prague-Vienna: Ed. Strache, 1920. German.
A book gathering the poems of Ehrenstein from the years 1900-1919. Numbered copy, 17/100, on handmade paper, with a poem in the poet's handwriting, signed at the end (full signature).Leather binding with gilt illustration on the front cover.
Albert Ehrenstein (1886-1950) - Jewish poet born in Vienna. Lived most of his life in Berlin and wrote poetry that criticized the bourgeois lifestyle, with a strong attraction to the East. Ehrenstein visited Palestine in 1930 and published his impressions in a series of essays. A short time prior to the Nazi rise to power he moved to Switzerland, from where he emigrated in 1941 to the United States, living there until his death.
215 pp., 25 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. The book has undergone professional restoration. New endpapers. Worming to inner part of leaves (partly restored). Some damage to binding.
