autograph manuscript draft for "masse und macht" ["crowds and power"], signed on the title ("elias canetti"), diverging substantially from the text of the printed edition — Canetti, Elias

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Estimate: £15,000–£20,000 hammer ≈ $22,591–$30,121
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Sale: Sotheby's — Music and Continental Books and Manuscripts, London · 7 December 2015
Record ID: TB-2026-4430810
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Elias Canetti, autograph manuscript draft for "masse und macht" ["crowds and power"], signed on the title ("elias canetti"), diverging substantially from the text of the printed edition. Sotheby's, 7 Dec 2015, lot 25. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4430810.

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Elias Canetti, autograph manuscript draft for "masse und macht" ["crowds and power"], signed on the title ("elias canetti"), diverging substantially from the text of the printed edition. Sotheby's, 7 Dec 2015, lot 25. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4430810.

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