95 - 588 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
= Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Books L, Collaborations p.220: "200 copies (edition of 500), left over from the exhibition Rainer-Roth, Kulturhaus Graz, 1975".
Scheerbart, P. Das Perpetuum Mobile. Die Geschichte einer Erfindung. Erlangen, K.G. Renner, 1977, (6),43,(1)p., fold. plate, printed in 500 numb. copies.
= Facs. reprint of the first ed., 1910. WITH the original 9 wrappers, printed on paper of various diff. colours, each w. different illustration by DIETER ROTH.
AND 4 others (w. contributions) by/ on the same.
= Unnumb. copy, but with AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION in pencil on verso of the sleeve: "für Kees Broos. Stiutt. 19.4.81 Dieter Roth". Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Music 11; Broken Music p.210f.
- Backstrip and upper margin of dustwr. sl. discol.; with a second dustwr. underneath for Emmett Williams, The boy and the bird.
= One of 200 numb. and signed copies of the German edition with an ORIGINAL DOUBLE-PAGE PENCIL DRAWING, signed "Dieter Roth 79". Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Books G, Drawings, p.197. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIV.
= "Ergebnisse der ersten Berliner Dichter-Workshops (30.10 - 7.11.1982) (F.) Achletier, (G.) Brus, (D.) Roth, (G.) Rühm, (O.) Wiener" [facs. title]. Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Books L, Collaborations p.219.
- Edges of box sl. yellowed/ soiled.
= Featuring Attersee, Cibulka, Hossmann, Mayer, Nitsch, Renner, B. Roth, D. Roth, Rühm, Schwarz, Thomkins and Wiener. The text on the edges of the box reading: "selten gehörten musik München, Mai 1979 ABSCHOEPFSYMPHONIE / DIE ABSCHOEPFUNG mit Haupt- und Zwischenlabels und einigen Aufhebels,/ teilweise mit Zwischenlabels". Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Music 12; Broken Music p.226f. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XI.
- Box sl. yellowed; edges of box sl. worn and splitting at corners.
= The text on the edges of the box i.a. reading: "selten gehörten musik münchner konzert mai 1974 (...) fotos karin mack". Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Music 4; Broken Music p.226.
- Sleeve some vague foxing and yellowing. Otherwise fine.
= Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Music 14; Broken Music p.211. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIV.
= Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Copy Books C, p.324 and 332f.
= Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Books L Collaborations, p.221.
- Sleeve sl. worn at extremities.
= Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Music 6; Broken Music p.144.
- Sleeve sl. rubbed at edges. = Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Music 8; Broken Music p.226.
- Yellowed. Lower corner trifle bumped.
= The original 'shaken' signature stamp of Dieter Roth on the backflap of the dustwr. crossed out w. orange felt-tip pen; with a new signature stamp below w. autograph annotation "handgestempelt von:" and an arrow (both in orange felt-tip pen) pointing to the new stamp and to the artist's stamp by Emmett Williams on the back of the dustwr. Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Books L, Collaborations, p.219.
= Comprising approx. 150 lvs. of cut-out sections of various (col.) (illustrated) lvs. Stamped "homage à Dieter Roth" on fore-edge. Rare, miniature artists' booklet.
AND a privately produced booklet by KEES BROOS: de snel tekenaar/ der schnell zeicher (Arnhem, 2002, leporello in orig. wr., consisting of 8 photographs (in photostat) of Dieter Roth at work, The Hague, 1 July 1977).
- Fine.
= Liner notes by EMMETT WILLIAMS. Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Music 13; Broken Music p.171.
= Recorded by Björn Roth. Broken Music p.240.
Freddy and The Fighters. Featuring Bjorn Roth. Zug, Dieter Roth's Familieneverlag, (1977), 12'' gramophone record, produced in 500 copies, orig. fold. sleeve w. photogr. ills.
= Dobke, Dieter Roth - Books + Multiples, Books M, Others p.234.
Dieter Roth Verlag. Catalogue 1985. Munich/ Basel, idem, 1985, without pagination, ills., printed in 1000 copies, bound w. orig. metal perforation clip, wihout wr. as publ., obl. 8vo. - AND 9 others on the same, i.a. D. SCHWARZ, Auf der Bogen Bahn. Studien zum literarischen Werk von Dieter Roth (Zürich, 1981, ills., orig. wr. Contains a bibliography).
= I.a. concerning interviews by Kees Broos with Dieter Roth and related to exhibitions of Roth curated by Broos. incl. a leafd w. a series of 9 mounted orig. photographs of Dieter Roth at work (typescript caption reading "blackboard flashes - dieter roth at the haags gemeentemuseum july 1, 1977 (...)" and 4 (short) AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED by Dieter Roth to Kees Broos, 1986-1988).
ADDED: Wien, B. (ed.). Dieter Roth. Gesammelte Interviews. London, Hansjörg Mayer, 2002, 648,(1)p., (col.) ills., orig. boards, large 8vo.
= Contains the three interviews that Kees Broos had with Dieter Roth in 1980/81 (p.239ff), 1986 (p.375ff) and 1987/88 (p.397ff).
- Partly (water)stained; a few lvs./ quires loose(ning); library stamps on title-p. Orig. frontwr. stained/ soiled and cut sl. short.
- Wr. sl. dustsoiled and dogeared; owner's entry on frontwr.
= Rowell/ Wye 472 and ill. p.209; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34 p.54, 56 (full-p. ill.), and 154 note 71: "In December [1922] Mayakovsky and Osip Brik began discussions (...) about forming a group, to be named the 'Left Front of Arts' (LEF). LEF proved a stronger and more enduring group than Kom-fut or MAF and, as well as publishing books, initiated a journal, LEF, which ran to seven issues between April 1923 and the beginning of 1925. (...) The first number included the text of Brik's Not a Fellow Traveller (Ne poputchitsa) and Mayakovsky's About This (Pro eto) - both of them published under separate covers later in the year. The cover of Brik's Not a Fellow Traveller (...) was executed by Lavinsky, who based it on an earlier idea by Mayakovsky" (p.54). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XV.
- Title-p. and a few lvs. at the beginning w. restorations (mostly) in upper margin. Lacks orig. backwr. and backstrip (neatly replaced w. matching col. paper); frontcover sl. creased and w. restoration in lower corner.
= Rowell/ Wye 106; Compton, Russian futurist books 1912-16, p.126. With literary contributions by i.a. V. Aseev, V. Mayakovsky, B. Pasternak and V. Khlebnikov.