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MADELEINE, MARIE [pseud. Marie Madeleine, Baroness von Puttkamer]. Auf Kypros.

MADELEINE, MARIE [pseud. Marie Madeleine, Baroness von Puttkamer]. Auf Kypros. Lavishly illustrated with an original etching by Hermann Struck, other plates by Max Schlicting, Ernest Heilemann, Lovis Corinth, Max Slevogt, and others. Small folio, Art-Deco style boards, some foxing. Berlin: Est-Est, 1909

  • Notes: first illustrated edition. number 888 of 1000 copies of this controversial work by the Baroness von Puttkamer. Under the name of Marie Madeleine, the wealthy Baltic-born socialite established a name for herself as a writer of unusually lyrical, shockingly erotic poetry, prose, novellas, and short stories. In 1900, at the age of 19, she published her first collection, Auf Kypros [On Cyprus].
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