Three inscribed postcards as follows: i) Two cards stuck together, showing a wooded landscape and Mother and Child icon, signed in pencil 'Gruss v. H Hesse'; n.d. ii) Postcard showing Hesse with his youngest grandchild in 1956, photographed by Heiner Hesse. Inscribed in pencil 'Gute Wünsche v...
Poems and prose by Hesse, mostly privately printed on single sheets or folded bifolia, some with autograph annotations; composed 1914-1962, though the prints are mostly undated.
Poem Wenn auch . . . beginning 'Wenn auch der Abend kalt und traurig ist'; composed, according to the printed statement 'im Jahr 1918, dem vierten Jahr des Weltkrieges' but actually in April 1917.
Poem Friede; composed 11 October 1914, on a visit to Hesse's friend Conrad Haussman, and written in his Visitors' Book (see Sämtliche Werke vol. 12, p. 314). This printing 1939 on the evidence of the footnote 'Dieses Gedicht wurde vor fünfundzwanzig Jahren, einige Wochen nach Beginn des Weltkri...