Typed Letter, signed “Ludwig” , to Viking editor Marshall Best, “here comes some weird nightmusic again” with obscene self-caricature
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2 pp., on New Yorker letterhead. 4to. Very good. Old cellotape repair on verso. Item #324419 A bizarre and notable letter from artist/author Ludwig Bemelmans in the late 1940s when for a time his relationship with Viking was on uncertain terms, and with a remarkable self-caricature:“here comes some weird nightmusic again — I withdraw ‘Holdiady in Europe’ for a very logic reason and one that will relieve your
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