736 - 1327 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
- Sl. yellowed as usual; last 2 lvs. sl. dam. in inner blank margin from staples; 1 leaf loose; annot. on verso frontwr. Wrappers trifle (damp)soiled; frontwr. lacks sm. portion of lower right corner; spine sl. dam./ lacks sm. portion at foot.
= Helms p.27 and no.27c; Schmalenbach p.179; Hoek 749; Schwarz 91; Bolliger II, 71: "Neue Wege gehende Gestaltung eines Kinderbuches. Von Schwitters, Steinitz und Van Doesburg mit rein typografischen Mitteln illustriertes Märchen. Sehr reizvoll, besonders für "grosse Kinder" und sehr selten". This is one of 300 copies with "Märchen" on the frontwr. replaced by "Merz 14/15". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIX.
- Sl. worn; rusty staples; horizontal middle-fold throughout w. tear on the right end; backwr. loose, sl. frayed and torn in two on middle fold; spine split (and sl. dam. at lower staple).
= Very rare. Rattemeyer/ Helms 44; Bolliger II, 526; III, 192; VI, 792; Schmalenbach, p.54, 58, 93, 94 and 96; Schwarz 91. Contains i.a. list of 150 works (incl. dimensions and prices) by KURT SCHWITTERS (made between 1913-1926), presented on the Grosse Merz-Ausstellung of 1927, which toured in Germany, starting in Wiesbaden. In this issue Schwitters explains most explicitly how he came up with the name MERZ, which was part of an advertisement for the Kommerz- und Privatbank. "Jetzt nenne ich mich selbst MERZ" (p.100, Merz 20). With on the last page the type-vignet of the Merz Werbezentrale (Rattemeyer/ Helms 41), only used on his letterheads, an advertisement and on this issue of Merz. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXX.
- Yellowed as usual; corners and spine-ends trifle worn. A fine copy.
= Rattemeyer/ Helms no.27b (variant w. "links auf dem Titelblatt in eigenwilliger Satzanordnung Typo-Vermerk, Verlagsname und -ort anders wiedergegeben"; also cf. Rattemeyer/ Helms 30); Schmalenbach p.179; Hoek 749; Schwarz 91; Bolliger II, 71: "Neue Wege gehende Gestaltung eines Kinderbuches. Von Schwitters, Steinitz und Van Doesburg mit rein typografischen Mitteln illustriertes Märchen. Sehr reizvoll, besonders für "grosse Kinder" und sehr selten". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIX.
- Corners and spine-ends trifle rubbed. Otherwise fine.
- Owner's entry on htitle; partly sl. mouldy at inner margin (affecting 1 lithograph); some foxing. Dustwr. lacks portion at upper edge of frontcover.
= Both with a SIGNED DEDICATION on htitle. The 2nd with a loosely inserted col. silkscreen (signed "Chr. Paul Damsté" in pencil).
AND 2 others by/ on the same, both with a SIGNED DEDICATION.
- Vol.1 lacks frontisp. portrait; all vols. occas. sl. foxed; vol.3 vague receding waterstain in upper inner corner. Paper over boards trifle rubbed. A good/ fine set.
- Partly trifle foxed, mostly in blank margins. Backstrip of one vol. sl. stained.
= Unnumb. copy of the DELUXE EDITION of 150 copies printed on Vélin des Rives.
- Without no.1; wr. of no. 4/5 sl. soiled.
= Rare publications with theoretical and and polemic contributions on modern art, i.a. by "d.r." (= Dieter Roth?) Tim Threlfall,, Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Guy Williams and Enno Develing. From the collection of Kees Broos and Liesbeth Brandt Corstius.
= Baljeu p. 205; Fanelli 182; Hoek p.767.
AND 5 miscell. others, i.a. DE RECLAME. Year 7, no.12 (Amst., 1928, (tipped-in) plates, ills., samples etc., orig. wr., 4to) and NEDERLANDSCHE AMBACHTS- EN NIJVERHEIDSKUNST. Jaarboek 1919/ 1920 (Rott., 1919/ 1920, 2 vols., plates/ ills., orig. cl./ wr., 4to).
- Trifle creased and yellowed as usual. = Hoek 659b3; Purvis/ De Jong p.79.
- Fine.
= Rare publisher's brochure for the issue of l'Architecture Vivante devoted to De Stijl.
= With SIGNED DEDICATION by the artist: "spelciaal aan Kees Broos. Cesar Domela: .
WITH loosely inserted: Domela. AUTOGRAPH PICTURE POSTCARD SIGNED "Cesar Domela", to "Beste Broos", dated "16-11/80", black ballpoint, recto showing a photograph of Domela in his atelier.
= Apologising that he forgot to give Broos the collage that he had promised him and referring to a possible purchase by the Haags Gemeentemuseum of a work by Domela.
ADDED: Helms, D. a.o. (ed.). "Typographie kann unter Umständen Kunst sein". Ring 'neue Werbegestalter'. Amsterdamer Ausstellung von 1931. Wiesbaden etc., Landesmus. etc., 1990, 143,(1)p., num. (col.) ills., orig. wr., 4to.
- Top of spine dustwr. torn and frontwr. sl. rubbed. = Les grandes monographies X.
- First free endpaper heavily foxed; bookblock broken (holding on cords). Backstrip covered w. tape; wrappers trifle frayed/ worn along edges.
= Juffermans JB5. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXI.