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Magnus Zeller - Signed Lithographs Illustrating Poems by Arnold Zweig - Frankfurt am Main, 1920

Entrückung und Aufruhr, Zwolf Gedichte (handschriftlich) von Arnold Zweig. Portfolio with twelve lithographs by Magnus Zeller, illustrating poems by Arnold Zweig. Frankfurt am Main: Tiedemann & Uzielli, 1920. German.
Twelve lithographs by German artist Magnus Zeller (1888-1972), accompanying poems by Arnold Zweig. The portfolio includes an introduction (a letter to Magnus Zeller) and an afterword by Zweig. The text leaves (poems, introduction and afterword) are facsimiles of a manuscript. The lithographs are all signed in pencil by Zeller. Two are dated: 1918. The portfolio is numbered 25/105.
[17] text leaves + [12] lithographs; inserted in portfolio, 38 cm. Good condition. Papers of different size, with uneven edges. Creases and some tears to margins. Stains to margins of some of the leaves. Original portfolio, stained, with slight defects.