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an open book with a drawing of a man sitting on a tree branch
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Estimate €600 - €650
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Alastair Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules Amédée A Woman’s Revenge. With 9 partly coloured drawings by Alastair. Vienna, Avalun, 1924. 4°. 61 pp. Paperback with mounted spine label. (slightly rubbed). One of 480 copies (this copy unnumbered). – The two-colour illustrations were reproduced as phototypes at the State Academy in Leipzig under the supervision of Fritz Goetz. ‘As a self-taught artist, (Alastair) developed into an outstanding illustrator in the style of Beardsley, whom he at times even surpassed in the erotic undertones and demonic features of his “artificially refined” and elongated figures’ (Alfred Langer, Jugendstil und Buchkunst, Leipzig 1994, p. 58). – Set in Carl Ernst Poeschel’s Winckelmann-Antiqua typeface. Printed by Poeschel & Trepte, Leipzig. – A fine, clean copy. This lot is subject to standard tax. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is payable on the hammer price, and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offset Prints, Photographs) is payable on the final invoice amount within the European Union. This work is subject to the standard margin scheme. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints and photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union.
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About the sale Valuable books, prints, historical photographs
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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