1 - 307 GLOBAL AVANTGARDE - MODERNIST TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN 1915-1950
- Wrappers sl. (water)stained and soiled.
= Rare exhibition catalogue of the first of two retrospective exhibitions on German expressionist art in Moscow, an initiative of the Internationale Arbeiterhilfe.
- Lower corner sl. dogeared. = Catalogue for the exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Wien.
ADDED: Internationale Kunstausstellung. Vienna, Gesellschaft zur Förderung moderner Kunst in Wien, 1924, (16)p., 12 photogr. plates, orig. grey wr. w. green letterpress text, square 8vo.
- Last 2 plates sm. repaired tear in fore-edge margin. Spine sl. dam.
= Catalogue of the important 1924 exhibition of modern art at the Sezession, listing works by i.a. Alexander Archipenko, Max Beckmann, George Braque, Marc Chagall, André Derain, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, Naum Gabo, Leo Gestel, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Willem van Konijnenburg, Fernand Léger, El Lissitzky, Piet Mondriaan, Harm Kamerlingh Onnes, Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, George Rouault, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Jan Sluyters, Charley Toorop, Jan Toorop and Matthieu Wiegman.
- Frontwrapper very vaguely waterst.; otherwise fine.
Three Cabin Class Liners. New York, French Line, n.d. (±1930), (28)p., ills., printed in black and gold, orig. wr. w. anonymous design.
- Wrappers sl. frayed and chipped.
- Yellowed. = Extremely rare. Hoek 673e.
- Small (water)stain on frontwr. (also affecting title-p. and next few lvs.); backstrip sl. cracking; inkstain at top of spine.
= Global Avantgarde Russia 20; Karapetian, When the Book finds the Artist p.33. Mikayel Mazmanyan was a graduate of VKhUTEMAS.
- Foot of spine chipped.
= Global Avantgarde Chile 16 (other issue w. diff. colours).
- Spine-ends sl. dam. (restored); wr. very vaguely foxed.
= Global Avantgarde Uruguay 30. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION oppostie title (w. sl. offsetting on title).
= Global Avantgarde Romania 42. Rare almanac of the Romanian graphic industry.
= Global Avantgarde Hungary 32.
- Yellowed and occas. foxing (hardly visible on frontwr.). Backstrip dam.; frontwr. a few tiny chips and sm. part of lower corner reattached.
= Global Avantgarde Peru 7; Diagramming Modernity p.510 (other issue) and p.519 (other issue w. diff. des.); cf. Futurisms in the World p.748 (other issue w. diff. des.).
- Fine.
= Probably a proof printed in red, before publishing in MERZ 6, Oct. 1923 and before the captions "Diese Zeitschrift heisst von hinten Merz. a.d. Inhalt: Arp. Tzara. Aufruf. Hirschel-Protsch. Mondrian. Neo Plasticisme. Arab. Sprüche" in upper margin. Verso w. stamp "Epreuve" and w. the collector's stamp of Emile Maeyens in red (Lugt 4178).
- Very fine copy.
= Global Avantgarde Lithuania 34; Jankevičiūtė p.132. Rare exhibition catalogue of the Ars group of modern Lithuanian artists, which included i.a. Antanas Gudaitis, Antanas Samuolis and Viktoras Vizgirda. "The members of Ars placed a provocatively written statement in the publication that accompanied the exhibition, which effectively became the first manifesto of Lithuanian art." (National Gallery of Art, Vilnius: http://www.ndg.lt/collection/the-permanent-exhibition/the-new-art.aspx).
- Wrappers trifle foxed. = Global Avantgarde New Zealand 3 (other issue w. diff. colours).
- Backwrapper sl. fingersoiled/ stained and w. vague library stamp.
= Khan-Magomedov p.130f; Rowell/ Wye 498 and ill. p.189.
- Boards sl. yellowed; joints and spine-ends worn.
- Good/ fine copy. = Russian translation of Auerbach's Die Physik im Kriege (Jena, 1915).
= Global Avantgarde Estonia 6; Geometrical Man p.81; Futurisms in the World p.290: "A book of experimental poems that even in its title, 'Geometric Man', shows the influence of the reflections on mechanized man foreshadowed in Marinetti's manifesto L'homme multiplié et le règne de la machine". One of the most striking Estonian avant-garde publications.
- Foot of spine chipped.
= Global Avantgarde Estonia 15; Geometrical Man p.81; Futurisms in the World p.290f. The follow-up vol. to Barbarus' Geomeetriline inimene.
- Fine copy.
= Global Avantgarde Lithuania 11; Futurisms in the World p.669. The second edition of Binkis' second futurist collection of poems, the first with the wrapper design by Adomas Galdikas. "(...) it is considered his most Futurist work, and one that marked the start of the Lithuanian avant-garde" (Futurisms in the World).
- Fine. = Rare.