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STRAUSS RICHARD: (1864-1949) - STRAUSS RICHARD: (1864-1949) German composer. A highly unusual signed hand-print, one page, 8vo (approximately 16.5 x 21 cm), Berlin, 21st April 1925. The black ink print is of the composer´s right hand and clearly displays the palmar flexion creases of his palm and fingers, and with a few light brown paint marks to the edges. Signed ( ´Dr. Richard Strauss´ ) in black fountain pen ink to the lower left, adding the place and date, Berlin, 21st April 1925 in his hand. With the purple ink stamp of M. Rachig´s Handarchiv to the lower right corner. A rare and visually appealing form of Strauss´s autograph. Some light creasing and age wear, and with a few small tears to the right edge, G The remarkable hand-print of Strauss was taken by the palmist Marianne Raschig and used by her in her book Hand und Persönlichkeit. Einführung in das System der Handlehre , (1931).