With a full-page drawing by Avenarius
Josefine Mutzenbacher oder Die Geschichte einer Wienerischen Dirne. Von ihr selbst erzählt. Privatdruck.
8vo. (2), VI, 383, (1) pp. Contemp. half calf with giltstamped red spine label.
€ 2,500.00
One of 1,000 copies, not numbered. A variant imprint of the first German edition, showing the correct page count "383" (rather than "332", as misprinted in the previous impression). "Gesuchtes Sotadicum!" (Hayn/G.); the work's authorship remains unresolved: the publisher Fritz Freund and Willi Handl probably were involved.
Binding insignificantly rubbed; foredge and several pages show brownstaining. The half-title boasts a full-page erotic illustration by the Expressionist artist Johannes Maximilian Avenarius (1887-1954), signed and dated "J. M. G. [19]25".
Cf. Hayn/Gotendorf VIII, 477, Bilder-Lexikon IV, 692. Stern-Szana 233 (all "332 pp.").
