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Lot 282
MEYRINK, GUSTAV Der Mann auf der Flasche.
Charlottenburg: Alfred Hoennicke, 1920. One of only 39 copies thus. Publisher's vellum-backed marbled boards. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (24 x 19.5 cm); [8] ff. text (including initial blank), and eleven pencil-signed etchings by Fritz Janowski, printed in green ink, with remarques. Minimal soiling to spine, in all a very pretty copy. Bookplate of William P. Moore.
Meyrink was the author of The Golem and other fiction with a supernatural bent; he was himself deeply interested in spiritual and occult matters, and he was a member of the occult society The Golden Dawn, to which Alastair Crowley and W.B. Yeats also belonged. Der Mann auf der Flasche ("The Man in the Flask") is a short fiction thematically similar to Poe's Masque of the Red Death, with a plot of murder and intrigue set against a masquerade ball organized by Prince Mohammed Darasche-koh. Janowski's brilliant and macabre etchings perfectly complement the text. The first work of the "Geiste Aubrey Beardsley's," a short-lived private press imprint, the work is rarely seen in commerce; the last we note was sold at Ketterer in 2012. Rodenberg S. 326.
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