Alexis und Dora SIGNED

Name: Alexis und Dora SIGNED
Price: 50 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Illustrator & Writer by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Günter Horlbeck, illust

by Illustrator & Writer by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Günter Horlbeck, illust

$50 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

Signed

Leipzig: Veb E. A. Seemann, 1957 . Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/1000. Original paper-covered boards with color lithograph by Horlbeck. Signed by Horlbeck and Irmgard H. Kappler on limitation page. This poem in elegiac metre was written by Goethe in 1796. In it, the Greek youth Alexis, just before his departure by ship, falls deeply in love with Dora. The 158-line poem is a monologue spoken aboard the ship by Alexis shortly

Binding: Hardcover

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.