Munchen: Carl Hanser Verlag 2002. First edition. One of only 33 numbered copies signed by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, who contributes the prefatory poem “Abschied von Max Sebald.” Stoddard 18. A long collaboration between Sebald and Tripp that was left almost completed at the time of Sebald’s sudden death, the book is unfortunately not signed by Sebald. “The ‘33 Miniaturen’ depict the eyes of artists and writers as well as those of the contributors and their friends, including the dog Maurice (Morris). The final portrait is a double, one above the other, of WGS with and without his glasses.” – Roger Stoddard, “W. G. Sebald”, in The Book Collector, Winter 2009, pp. 517-542 (illustrating one of the plates from the book on p. 542). The book consists of 33 original signed prints by Tripp, each image accompanied by a “miniature” poem by Sebald, as well as Tripp’s signed frontispiece portrait etching of Sebald. Among the subjects are William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, Francis Bacon, Jasper Johns, Robert Ryman, Barnett Newman, Andre Masson, Michael Hamburger, Rembrandt, Richard Hamilton, Anna and W. G. Sebald. This beautiful and severely limited edition preceded the trade edition by several months and was quickly sold out. Small 4to, original half morocco & gray cloth, silk ribbon marker, in matching original cloth and cardstock slipcase. As new, with acid-free box and publisher's shipping carton.