1 - 329 GLOBAL AVANTGARDE - MODERNIST TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN 1915-1950
- Spine w. some dam. spots.
= Global Avantgarde Georgia 2 (other issue). Russian-language literary artistic magazine.
- Wrappers sl. discol..
= Le Fonds Paul Destribats 389; Bolliger III, 207 ("Bedeutende avantgardistische Zeitschrift (...)"). Contains contributions by K. Malewitsch ("Suprematismus"), H. Wescher ("Hommage à Malewitsch" and "Malewitsch in memoriam"), G.L.K. Morris ("On the abstract tradition") and S. Giedion ("Brauchen wir noch Künstler?").
- A few pages sl. browned from offsetting of opposite page. Fine copy.
= The first of 9 issues that were irregularly published 1919-1924 and that contained contributions by many modernist artists and authors, i.a. Josephine Bell, Louis Bouché, Horace Brodzky, Louise Bryant, Jean Edgar, William Gropper, Alfred Kreymborg, Vachel Lindsay, A. Walkowitz and Max Weber.
- (Vague) waterst. in upper blank corner and part of upper blank and fore-edge margin (also visible on backwr.); a few lvs. w tiny tear in fore-edge margin. Spine some repaired spots. A good copy.
= The second of 9 issues that were irregularly published 1919-1924 and that contained contributions by many modernist artists and authors, i.a. John Nicholas Beffel, Horace Brodzky, My Carloyn Davies, Ben B. Finkle, William Gropper, Zoltan Hecht, Alfred Kreymborg, Gaston Lachaise, Esta Varez, Max Weber and Zorach.
- Some sl. foxing. Sm. owner's entry on frontwr.; backstrip restored; wrappers sl. frayed in overlapping fore-edge margin; lower margin frontwr. sl. cut short.
= Global Avantgarde Uruguay 20. Rare.
- Annot. in pen and ink on frontwr. = Music by Aleksandr Levin.
Karelina, M. Na Taiti. Leningrad, Notnoe Izdatel'stvo, n.d. (±1925), 4p., scores, orig. wr. monogrammed "Yu.M.[?], folio.
- Creased and frayed. = Music by Paul Marcel.
- Owner's entry/ annots. on title-p.; sl. yellowed; hinges sl. weak.
- Small stamp on title and on front- and backwr.
AND 1 other similar: H. MUNSONIUS, Fenstergucker (n.d. Creased, but flattened).
- Vaguely waterst. in lower corner. Upper margin frontwr. partly dam. and restored w. paper (w. small part of title neatly reproduced).
= Chepyzhov 8. "Proletarian Literature" was the official art and literary magazine of the Association of Georgian Proletarian Writers. Early issues were designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko.
- Fine.
= Collection of quotations on property from the works of i.a. Bebel, Anatole France, Kropotkin, Marx, Thomas Moore, Pascal, Rousseau, Bertrand Russell and Tolstoi.
Gerbault, A. Perseguint el Sol. Diari de bord. Pref. J.B. Charcot, transl. M.A. Baltà. Barcelona, Edicions Ariel, 1930, 175p., fold. map, photogr. plates, orig. wr. w. anonymous design.
- Yellowed. Backstrip 3 tiny holes.
Izquierdo Giménez, J. Ráfagas del Recuerdo. Valencia, Imprenta Domenech, n.d. (±1935), 194,(2)p., orig. wr. w. anonymous design.
- Yellowed, incl. wrappers. Frontwr. w. tiny rubbed spot and lacks sm. portion of upper blank corner; backstr. sl. waterstained and worn at spine-ends.
- Both vols. some occas. thumbing/ soiling and loose in wr. (rusty staples); vol.1 w. waterstain in inner margin and on inside frontwr. Wrappers of vol.1 sl. browned/ stained and upper corner of front- and backwr. restored. Frontwr. of vol.2 w. 2 reddish stains; front- and backwr. lacking sm. portion of blank corner/ margin; spine split and repaired w. tape, w. sellotape stains along spine of bookblock.
= Global Avantgarde Romania 15; not in Le Fonds Paul Destribats. Extremely rare Jewish Romanian avantgarde periodical. For the linocut wr. by Marcel Janco of vol.1 see Ilk, Marcel Janco CR73 ("Extrem seltene Publikation der jüdischen Intellektuellen aus Bukarest (2 Jahresheft erschienen: 1925 u. 1926). Nur 2 Exemplare bekannt") and p.67 w. full-p. ill.
- Some sl. wear at extremities. = Nice typography.
- Trifle yellowed; horizontal and vertical middle fold.
= Poster for a sculpture exhibition at the Rigas Pils. Mākslas Muzejā (Riga City Art Museum), 12-26 February.
= Special 10th anniversary issue, i.a. listing a program of festivities.
Boletim da C.P. Órgáo da instruçá professional do pessoal da componhia. Year 7, no.73. Lisbon, Oficinas Gráficas da C.P., 1935, p.129-152, ills., orig. wr. w. anonymous design, 4to.
- Sl. yellowed; a few tiny inkstains on wr. = Very rare.
- Backstrip dented/ sl. creased.
= Global Avantgarde Estonia 20. Märt Laarman was a prominent theoretician of the EKR (Eesti Kunstnikkude Rühm - The Group of Estonian Artists).
- Wrappers trifle creased and fingersoiled; foot of spine strengthened w. sellotape.
= Cf. Vloemans 102; Global Avantgarde Czechoslovakia 29 and 32 (other issues); Primus p.30: "Eine kontinuierliche Entwicklung des Umschlages im letzten Viertel des zwanziger und am Anfang der dreißiger Jahre können wir am Beispiel der Zeitschrift "ReD" - Revue svazu moderní kultůry Devětsil" (Internationale Monatsschrift für moderne Gestaltung) verfolgen (...). Auf den Umschlägen werden sowohl reine Typographie, als auch Zeichnungen, architektonische Entwürfe, Fotografie, Fotomontage und Beispiele verschiedener Ismen verwendet (...). Im Hinblick auf Inhalt and Aufmachung war ReD die beste Avantgardezeitschrift in der Tschechoslowakei."
- Lower edges of wrappers sl. frayed.
= Cf. Vloemans 102; Global Avantgarde Czechoslovakia 29 and 32 (other issues); Primus p.30: "Eine kontinuierliche Entwicklung des Umschlages im letzten Viertel des zwanziger und am Anfang der dreißiger Jahre können wir am Beispiel der Zeitschrift "ReD" - Revue svazu moderní kultůry Devětsil" (Internationale Monatsschrift für moderne Gestaltung) verfolgen (...). Auf den Umschlägen werden sowohl reine Typographie, als auch Zeichnungen, architektonische Entwürfe, Fotografie, Fotomontage und Beispiele verschiedener Ismen verwendet (...). Im Hinblick auf Inhalt and Aufmachung war ReD die beste Avantgardezeitschrift in der Tschechoslowakei."
- Backwr. stained/ sl. mouldy; backstrip worn. = Global Avantgarde Turkey 21.