Der Weisse Facher: Ein Zwischenspiel.; Mit vier holzschnitten von Edward Gordon Craig

by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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First edition

Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1907. First edition, 1/50 numbered copies auf echtem Japan. . Folio. 26 pp. Four woodcut plates. Printed in gold and black. A one-act play, inspired by a Chinese tale from which he developed the theme of life's transitory hold on happiness and sorrow, about a young widower and young widow, mourners for their lost loves, meeting in the cemetery and seeing in each other a new life. It first appeared in von Hofmannsthal's Kleine Dramen

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