STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCIII. Collection of poems entitled 'Admirez vous les uns les autres'; 1906. Drafts, including two corrected printed proof sheets. French. Early version of a collection published as La Multiple Splendeur. Zweig's note of presentation to him by the author, 1909 (f. ...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXXVI. Essays; early 20th cent. French. ff. 18. 273 x 207mm. 1. ff. 1-17. 'La Jeunesse Suisse'; 1917 (see f. 17). Draft. Printed in R. Rolland, Les Précurseurs, (Paris, 1919), pp. 71-89. 2. f. 18. Declaration of independence of spirit at the end of the First ...
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin: Poem 'Stuttgart' [1800-1801]
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Autograph fair copy in Kurrentschrift. Folio 1 annotated by other hands as described above. An elegy of six stanzas with the title spelled ‘Stutgard’. Each strophe is formed of nine distiches in groups of three. The poem reflects the celebration of autumn in a landscape through which the wande...
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin: Two poems 'An die Deutschen' and 'Die scheinheiligen Dichter'
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Autograph drafts in Kurrentschrift. Signed at the foot of the recto (the corresponding signature on the verso is cut away). Two of the twelve epigrammatic odes that Hölderlin prepared for publication in 1798. Both of eight lines in two stanzas. 'An die Deutschen': a call to action for Germa...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXV. Honoré de Balzac: fragment of an early version of his article 'Monographie de la Presse Parisienne'; before 1842. Printed proof sheet with autograph annotations. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Honoré de Balzac, ed. M. Bouteron and H. Longnon, vol. 40 (Paris,...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCVI. 'Voyage d'un Français en France'; [1880]. Draft fragment. French. See P. Verlaine, Oeuvres en Prose Complètes, ed. J. Borel (Paris, 1972), pp. 993-1046. Presentation inscription of Ernest Delahaye to Zweig (f. 1). f. 1. 220 x 175mm. Paul Verlaine, poet: 'V...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXX. Letter to A. Wolfenstein; 1920. German. f. 1. 175 x 135mm. Rainer Maria Rilke, poet: A. Wolfenstein: Letter to A. Wolfenstein from Rainer Maria Rilke: 1920: Germ.
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCV. Collection of poems 'Fêtes Galantes'; circa 1869. Fair copies and drafts, including two printed proofs. French. See P. Verlaine, Oeuvres Poétiques Complètes, ed. Y. G. Le Dantec (Paris, 1962), pp. 107-121. ff. 31. Binding of red morocco, gold-tooled by E. A....
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXIX. Prose narrative 'Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke'; 1899 (see f. 1). Fair copy. German. See R. M. Rilke, Gesammelte Werke, vol. 4 (Leipzig, 1930), 'Schriften in Prosa', pp. 5-34. Zweig's note of gift by the author (f. i). ff. i+27. B...