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Sieben, Gottfried (pseudonym: Archibald Smith). Balkangreuel. With an introduction by Herbert Stone. With 12 plates under titled silk shirts. Vienna, privately printed by the Gesellschaft Österreichischer Bibliophilen, 1909. 7 pp. (title and introduction). 35.5 x 28 cm. Loose in new half cloth portfolio. Rare original edition. - One of 550 numbered copies, not on the market. - Hayn-Gotendorf VII, 721 - Bilder-Lexikon II, 808 - Der Kalte Blick p. 76f. - Polunbi 18: "to make unusable". - Sieben (1856-1918) was a student at the Vienna Academy. During a trip to Russia, the Balkans and the Caucasus, he created these "highly erotic, rather sadistic, but entirely impersonal drawings" (Bilderlexikon), which were published under a pseudonym. - Plates with small collector's stamp on verso, silk shirt somewhat browned and creased in places, otherwise a good copy. - Provenance: From the collection of Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Frankfurt.
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Sieben, Gottfried (pseudonym: Archibald Smith). Balkangreuel. With an introduction by Herbert Stone. With 12 plates under titled silk shirts. Vienna, privately printed by the Gesellschaft Österreichischer Bibliophilen, 1909. 7 pp. (title and introduction). 35.5 x 28 cm. Loose in new half cloth portfolio. Rare original edition. - One of 550 numbered copies, not on the market. - Hayn-Gotendorf VII, 721 - Bilder-Lexikon II, 808 - Der Kalte Blick p. 76f. - Polunbi 18: "to make unusable". - Sieben (1856-1918) was a student at the Vienna Academy. During a trip to Russia, the Balkans and the Caucasus, he created these "highly erotic, rather sadistic, but entirely impersonal drawings" (Bilderlexikon), which were published under a pseudonym. - Plates with small collector's stamp on verso, silk shirt somewhat browned and creased in places, otherwise a good copy. - Provenance: From the collection of Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Frankfurt.
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