'Tagebuchblatt', poem by Hesse; composed April 1939. A cutting from National-Zeitung (Basel), Sonntagsbeilage no. 218, 14 May 1939 (identified by Mileck vol. 1 p. 492). This is the first publication of the poem. On the reverse is a complete poem 'Die Wühlmäuse' by Albin Zollinger, Swiss writer...
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...
'Blatt aus dem Notizbuch', prose by Hesse; composed March 1940. A page from Neue Zürcher Zeitung no. 554 (9), 14 April 1940. Litertur und Kunst supplement, p. 3. This is the first publication of the poem. Followed by an extract from a letter to his son, Martin, written in April 1940, 'Aus einem...