P. ALTENBERG, THREE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, TO THE PUBLISHER SAMUEL FISCHER, C.1897-1898

concerning among other matters the publication of Ashantee, requesting the insertion of an additional section, to be placed before "Der Tag des Abschiedes", discussing a photograph for the volume, referring to the Ashanti troupe, noting that their impresario has informed him that his book is not to found in bookshops in Stockholm, Stettin and elsewhere, telling him that the troupe will be in Berlin at the end of February, and that he might also be there ...Der Impresario der Aschanti sagte mir heute, daß weder d. Buchhandlungen in Stockholm...noch Stettin mein Buch "Aschantee" hätten. Jetzt ist die Truppe in Magdeburg. Ende Februar kommen die Aschanti nach Berlin. Vielleicht ich auch!?... 4 pages, plus three blanks, 8vo, one letter on Karten-Brief paper with an autograph address panel, Vienna, c.1897-1898, smudging to a few words of one letter

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Three letters by the seminal figure of turn-of-the century Viennese modernism Peter Altenberg (1859-1919). All the letters concern the publication of his writings, two of them referring to his book Ashantee (1897), inspired by an exhibition of Ashanti culture in Vienna in the summer of 1896. Although only two of the three letters are actually addressed to Fischer, the contents of the third suggests that Fischer was the addressee here too.