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n.p.: Peter Bamm, 1960. 315 by 280 mm (12.5 by 11 inches). Red leather boards; [1 – frontispiece], 30 pp. manuscript, 13 pp. corrected typed manuscript, 175–180, 28 pp. illustrations, [2] pp. This is a custom-bound presentation manuscript including Bamm’s original handwritten thirty pages, then his corrected typed thirteen pages, and ending with the final printed text and illustrations all bound into one as a singular unique copy. In German. Double inscribed to Felix Guggenheim. First, on the frontispiece by American writer and artist Stephen Longstreet (1907–2002), and then on a dedication page of the manuscript by German author Peter Bamm (1897–1975).

Longstreet inscribed:

To my friend Felix in much thanks in making this work of art into an art of faith—in friendship. Stephen Longstreet. VI ’ 60.

And Bamm inscribed:

For Felix Guggenheim. Warmly. Peter Bamm. On the occasion of the premier “Wiege unserer Welt.” Baden Baden. March 1960. (translated).

Bamm further wrote under the frontispiece “Ex Libris F.G. / P.B.” [i.e. Felix Guggenheim / Peter Bamm]. Bamm’s text was a chapter in a book he edited: Wiege unserer Welt. Stätten alter Kulturen am Mittelmeer, Droemer Knaur, 1958. The subject of the book is the meeting of eastern and western cultures in the Mediterranean. Very good plus, with a small tear to head of spine.

Provenance

Collection of Felix Guggenheim. Guggenheim was Bamm’s literary agent, and this commemorative object was given to him in appreciation of his efforts on behalf of Bamm.

Midwife to my Books

Baum, Vicki. Theme For Ballet.

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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