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Count, Oskar Maria. The perpetual calendar. A review of the year. With 18 drawings by Anne Maria Jauss. New York, self-published, 1954. 46 p., 1 sheet. 26 x 18.5 cm. Original cloth with spine title and cover vignette (somewhat foxed). One of 250 (GA 500) copies of the signed special edition, here with a longer handwritten dedication by Graf for his friend Bill Krakowski, but without the illustrator's signature. - First edition of the poem cycle, published by the poet's friends on his 60th birthday. - Enclosed: 4 further dedication copies (1950-1961) by Oskar Maria Graf for Bill Krakowski: 1. An manchen Tagen. Frankfurt, Nest, 1961. 376 pp. Original cloth with original dust jacket (the latter somewhat edgeworn). - 2. we are prisoners. Berlin, Aufbau, 1948. 463 pp. Original paperback (rubbed and bumped, rear joint cracked). - Inner joints loosened. - 3. Mitmenschen, Berlin, Aufbau, 1950. 231 pp. Original paperback (rubbed and bumped, rear joint cracked). - Few leaves edged, browned. - 4. one against all. Novel. Potsdam, Märkische Druck- und Verlags-GMBH, 1950. 267 pp. Original half canvas with original dust jacket (this one with lesions). - Margins browned. - Enclosed: Handwritten postcard from Graf to Krakowsky with address and 9-line text. Stamped: "Sep 2, 1951." VAT: *
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Count, Oskar Maria. The perpetual calendar. A review of the year. With 18 drawings by Anne Maria Jauss. New York, self-published, 1954. 46 p., 1 sheet. 26 x 18.5 cm. Original cloth with spine title and cover vignette (somewhat foxed). One of 250 (GA 500) copies of the signed special edition, here with a longer handwritten dedication by Graf for his friend Bill Krakowski, but without the illustrator's signature. - First edition of the poem cycle, published by the poet's friends on his 60th birthday. - Enclosed: 4 further dedication copies (1950-1961) by Oskar Maria Graf for Bill Krakowski: 1. An manchen Tagen. Frankfurt, Nest, 1961. 376 pp. Original cloth with original dust jacket (the latter somewhat edgeworn). - 2. we are prisoners. Berlin, Aufbau, 1948. 463 pp. Original paperback (rubbed and bumped, rear joint cracked). - Inner joints loosened. - 3. Mitmenschen, Berlin, Aufbau, 1950. 231 pp. Original paperback (rubbed and bumped, rear joint cracked). - Few leaves edged, browned. - 4. one against all. Novel. Potsdam, Märkische Druck- und Verlags-GMBH, 1950. 267 pp. Original half canvas with original dust jacket (this one with lesions). - Margins browned. - Enclosed: Handwritten postcard from Graf to Krakowsky with address and 9-line text. Stamped: "Sep 2, 1951." VAT: *
