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Portfolio of original art for The Gallows Songs
Portfolio of original art for The Gallows Songs
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Description
Heading: (King, Margit, illustrator)
Author: Morgenstern, Christian
Title: Galgenlieder / The Gallows Songs
Place Published: No place
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Date Published: 1967
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10 leaves of calligraphic text and 14 original multi-media illustrations by Margit King. The images, watercolors and applied papers, are each approximately 61x47 cm (24x18½") plus margins. Loose in the original folding portfolio of handmade paper, a fifteenth original art work on the front. Unique.



Text from the translation by Max Knight. Morgenstern's Galgenlieder first appeared in 1905, this selection of the poet's nonsense verse accompanied by original artistic interpretations by Margit King. The volume dedicated "For the physician who helped" to noted bibliophile and collector of rare scientific and medical books, Haskell F. Norman. A unique artist book.

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Paper backstrip of portfolio separating from boards (could be easily reglued); contents fine.
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Portfolio of original art for The Gallows Songs

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