Description

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. 215 by 150 mm (8.5 by 6 inches). Original cloth boards; 332 pp. Unclipped dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed by Baum to her literary agent Guggenheim. Very good. Dust jacket merely good with several chips.

Hedwig “Vicki” Baum (1888–1960) was an Austrian writer and amateur boxer. She is best known for her novel Menschen im Hotel. This book is the love story of a Viennese ballerina torn between love of the stage and love of a man. Thoughtfully inscribed:

The first copy off the press goes to my dear Friend Felix who has been midwife, father and mother, to so many of my book[s]. Affectionately and gratefully. Vicki

Provenance

Collection of Felix Guggenheim.

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