Hülsmanns, Dieter. Vakher. Novel. With 8 signed original etchings by Thomas Häfner. Darmstadt, Joseph Melzer, 1968. 101 pp. in 26 loose double sheets. 42.4 x 29 cm. Loose in original pink fine linen box with spine title and mounted cover illustration in protective slipcase (box somewhat dusty and a little scratched). One of 200 (GA 300) copies, not numbered here. - The etchings signed in the plate. - The etchings printed by Schulgen, Düsseldorf. Box by the bookbindery Gräf, Heidelberg. - Thomas Häfner's (1928-1985) surrealist illustrations with their subterranean eroticism are an "expression of nightmarish states of mind and a dark view of the world". (AKL 67, 241). - Provenance: From the collection of Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Frankfurt.

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