112 - 771 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
- Fine copy. = Rare. Published on occasion of an exhition at De Bijenkorf.
Neurath, O. De Moderne Mensch Ontstaat. Een reportage van vreugde en vrees. Dutch transl. B.F. van Overdiep. Amst., Noord-hollandsche uitgevers maatschappij, 1940, 159p., num. (col.) isotype graphics by G. ARNTZ, orig. cl., 4to.
- Owner's entry in pen and ink remnants of large bookplate(?) on first free endpaper; free endpapers foxed. Binding soiled; backstrip sunned; corners and spine-ends worn.
AND 2 others (w. isotype graphics) by GERD ARNTZ.
- 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).
- Sl. yellowed as usual (due to the quality of the paper); lower blank corner of no.3 dam.
= Rare avant-garde periodical, edited by Joshua Cohn, Edit DeAk and Walter Robinson. With contributions by i.a. L. Anderson, L. Levine, L. Weiner, J. Baldessari, D. Oppenheim, R. Serra, R. Armstrong, L. Pozzi, J. Schnabel, P. Smith and A. Suicide (Vega), and wrappers designed by i.a. W. Wegman, R. Tuttle, Christo, D. Rockburn, V. Acconci, P. Steir, J. Beuys, E. Ruscha, A. Vega, C. Andre, K. MacConnel and C. Burden.
ADDED: 13 sale catalogues of Johan Deumens Editions & Artists' Books, 1987-2003.
= I.a. by F. ALYS (I'm not here - An exhibition without Francis Alÿs. Amst., 2009), M. BLUM (Homo Oeconomicus. Les Angles, 2000), S. HUISMANS (Wasboekje F.H. Smalt, Den Haag. Dokkum, 1982), U. KOCH/ R. KÜPPER (Was was inzwischen? Cologne, 1993), C. KOENIGS (Carola Carambola visits India. Amst., 1992), S. PARISH (Visceral rarity. Maastr., 1993), S. PARKINSON (Head in the Railings. London, 2006), H. VAN DER PUTTEN (It's only. Amst., 1987), and 6 publications by Verlag VEXER (St. Gallen).
- Upper endpapers and title verso stained. Gilding on letterpiece partly worn.
= Facs. reprint of the first edition, Rott. 1678.
AND 5 other facs. reprints published by the same, i.a. G. DE LAIRESSE, Groot Schilderboek (Utr., 1969, 2 parts in 1 vol., num. (fold.) plates, orig. giltlettered hcalf w. green mor. letterpiece) and C. DE BIE, Het gulden cabinet van de edel vry schilderconst (Soest, 1971, 3 parts in 1 vol., num. plates, orig. giltlettered hcalf w. red mor. letterpiece).
= Facs. reprint of the first edition, Haarlem 1604 (fine copy).
- Board edges trifle rubbed. = Facs. reprint of the ed. Amst., 1643.
AND 1 other publ. by the same: J. DE BRUNE, Emblemata of Zinne-Werck (ibid., 1970, num. emblems by C. LE BLON, W. DE PASSE a.o. after A. VAN DE VENNE, orig. hcalf w. green mor. letterpiece).
- Spine sunned/ sl. rubbed. = Facs. reprint of the edition Amst., 1644.
- Plates w. some (sl.) foxing, mainly on flimsies and in blank margins. Rebacked; covers sl. stained.
- Fine copy. Slipcase some defects: waterst. w. small surface dam. on frontcover; some soiling/ fading; edges sl. worn.
= Deluxe copy, printed in 150 numb. copies on Vélin de Rives. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE V.
= In the form of a flipbook.
= "Ideal and practice of architectural training at the Bauhaus, based on the lecture notes made by the Dutch ex-Bauhaus student and architect J.J. van der Linden of the Mies van der Rohe curriculum" (subtitle).
AND 6 others relating to the Bauhaus, i.a. J. SCHMIDT, Lehre und Arbeit am Bauhaus 1919-32 (Düsseldorf, 1984, ills., orig. wr., 4to); W. HERZOGENRATH (ed.), Bauhaus Utopien. Arbeiten auf Papier (Stuttg., Ed. Cantz., 1988, (col.) ills., orig. wr., 4to) and 2 vols. from the series Neue Bauhausbücher (by L. MOHOLY-NAGY (1967) and P. MONDRIAAN (1974), orig. unif. cl. w. dustwr.).
- Mediocre copy: horizontal and vertical middle folds; worn/ split on folds (partly extending into text; partly repaired w. tape); soiled and a few stains (1x rubbed w. loss of text).
= Bolliger IV, 330 ("seltenen Zeitschrift"), VI, 735. First issue of the rare periodical published by Bauhaus. Contains contributions by i.a. WALTER GROPIUS ("Statt einer Vorrede: Walter Gropius: Bauhaus-Chronik 1925/1926" and "Bauhausneubau Dessau"), WASSILY KANDINSKY ("Der Wer des theoretischen Unterreichts in der Malerei") and LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY ("Geradlinigkeit des Geistes - Umwege der Technik").
- Mediocre copy: 2 horizontal (middle) folds; worn/ split on folds (partly repaired w. tape) and frayed/ chipped (partly strengthened/ repaired); soiled.
= Bolliger IV, 330 ("seltenen Zeitschrift"), VI, 735. Rare. Contains KONRAD VON MEYENBURG, "Kultur von Pflanzen, Tieren, Menschen".
- (Vague) vertical middle fold throughout (splitting at ends on wr., repaired on verso); (sl.) soiled.
= Andel p.194; Bolliger IV, 330 ("seltenen Zeitschrift"), VI, 735. Rare. Contains contributions by i.a. LASZLO MOHOLY NAGY ("Fotografie is Lichtgestaltung") and HERBERT BAYER ("Typografie und Werbsachengestaltung"). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE V.
- Wr. soiled; spine pasted over w. tape.
= Bolliger IV, 330 ("seltenen Zeitschrift"), VI, 735. Rare. Contains contributions by i.a. ERNST KÁLLAI ("Das Bauhaus lebt!"), JOSEF ALBERS ("Werklicher Formunterricht"), WASSILY KANDINSKY ("Kunstpädagogik"), PAUL KLEE ("Exakte Versuche im Bereich der Kunst") and OSKAR SCHLEMMER ("Unterrichtsgebiete").