1 - 329 GLOBAL AVANTGARDE - MODERNIST TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN 1915-1950
- Some fingersoiling and sl. foxing; no.7 lacks corner from first leaf w. loss of a few letters. All vols. lack backwr.; all frontwrappers sl. foxed/ worn; no.7 and 8 lack portion of blank margin of frontwr.; most backstrips partly dam. Sold w.a.f.
= Global Avantgarde Colombia 4 (other issue); Diagramming Modernity p.345 (no.8). Rare, early issues of "one of the most important cultural newspapers of the time" (Diagramming Modernity). "The various scholars who have studied Colombian graphic art agree on signaling Sergie Trujillo Magnenat as the most important artist of the 1930s and 1940s. (...). The general image of the review is based on its typography, a manifesto of the expressive capacity of the letters drawn by Trujillo (...) and their cardinal elements - the large, spaced and rational green and black letters on a white ground that cover the entire surface (...)" (Diagramming Modernity p.344ff).
= Chepyzhov 34: "According to the National Library of Georgia, the edition was banned." Contains three plays performed at the Rustaveli National Theatre, produced by i.a. Irakli Gamrekeli. "Based on Franz Marc's famous canvas, the cover of the book features the image of a tiger, which as the embodiment of the wild, plays a symbolic role in Robakidze's artistic life. The poet Tristan Tabidze wrote of him: "Robakidze cried like a wounded tiger when he spoke in public about Friedrich Nietzsche and Edgar Poe". Although the "wounded tiger" had travelled back to Georgia before Marc painted his artwork, the use of the tiger image in the design of the book wrapper might well have been his idea." (Chepyzhov).
- Yellowed. Wrappers some very vague foxing.
Zea Ruano, R. Cactos (Estampas orientales). Ibid., idem, 1943, 92p., ills. and orig. wr. des. by C. SIERRA FRANCO.
- Yellowed; first few lvs. lack tiny portion of upper blank corner. Foot of spine sl. dam.
Monteforte Toledo, M. Anaité. Ibid., El Libro de Guatemala, 1948, 320,(4)p., orig. wr. w. anonymous design.
- Yellowed. Foot of spine dam.; backstrip w. sm. waterstain.
- Three tiny portions cut from spine; owner's entry on frontwr.
Ylioppilaslehti. Year 14, no.10. Helsinki, n.publ., 1934, 165-184p., ills., orig. wr. w. anonymous design, 4to.
- Small ruststains from staples and paper ticket on backwr.
- A few words and portraits blotted out in pen and ink. Backstrip and wr. sl. dam. and worn.
= With the Rustaveli Theatre's logo designed by Gamrekeli on frontcover. Cf. Chepyzhov 74.
= "Kinder, es wird wieder fabelhaft (...) Heitere Zwischenfälle, Bauhaus- u. Rettberg-Kapelle, Kostum (nicht historisch), schwarze Larve (...)".
AND 1 similar invitation card by Akademischen Architekten-Verein for the "Sommerfest" 1929, monogrammed "SCH".
= Both rare.
- Upper corner cut from first leaf, touching the text on verso. Wrappers sl. yellowed and vaguely foxed.
= Rare programme booklet for the Dutch première of this piece for puppet-theatre.
- A few tiny rubbed spots at extremities.
- Yellowed as usual; corners and spine-ends trifle worn; backwr. w. traces of sm. ticket in upper blank corner. 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; Futurisms in the World p.533ff; Lang p.126ff; 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".
- Wrappers reattached; spine restored.
= Chepyzhov 37: "This book is by one of the founders of Georgian modernist poetry, Demna Shengelaia. The first realistic Georgian story, "Sanavardo", established the culture of the modernist novel in Georgian prose (...)".
- Small stamp on title-p. Wrapper trifle spotted.
Shtimon, B. Mashiach Ben Yosef. Jerusalem, Mesor, 1927, 16p., orig. wr. w. anonymous design, sm. 8vo.
- Dedication(?) in pen and ink on title-p. Flattened fold in backwr.





























