1 - 329 GLOBAL AVANTGARDE - MODERNIST TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN 1915-1950
- Foot of spine restored; wr. sl. creased and fingersoiled.
= Vloemans 65; Primus p.23 and cat. no.44.
- Sm. owner's entry on htitle. Wrappers sl. worn at extremities; front- and backwr. lack sm. portion from margin/ corner; frontwr. w. fold in lower part.
= Rare Swedish translation of The Mystery of Hunting's End.
- Bookblock splitting; backstrip dam./ partly worn off; wr. sl. yellowed and creased.
= Rowell/ Wye 464 and ill. p.202; Leclanche-Boulé 209. First edition of one of Ehrenburg's most famous works.
- Backstrip worn; spine-ends dam.; wr. stained/ soiled and trifle mouldy.
= Global Avantgarde Lithuania 33; Fraser R12. Lithuanian translation of Ilya Ehrenburg's widely popular Thirteen Pipes.
- Trifle foxed/ spotted. Foot of backstrip sl. chipped.
= Global Avantgarde France 44; Rowell/ Wye 711; not in Vloemans. First separate edition.
= "Einlasskarte zu der vom 14. bis 26. September 1927 in den Räumen der Kunstgewerbeschule stattfindenden Ausstellung "Neue Formgestaltung" veranstaltet vom Bund Deutscher Architekten, Ortsgruppe Barmen-Elberfeld." Nice anonymous Bauhaus-style design. Rare.
= Armenian poetry.
- Fine copy. = Catalogue of 20 modern summer cottages of Finland's largest forest industry company.
- Yellowed; a few tiny tears / chips in outer margins. Fine copy of a vulnerable leaf.
= Petits papiers des avant-gardes p.123 (DADA DEST 139); Bolliger II, 90; III, 29.1ff and V, 31.1. Prospectus for a guided tour by i.a. L. Aragon, J. Arp, A. Breton, P. Eluard, F. Picabia and T. Tzara. The text of this invitation to the first Dada field trip is attributed to Tristan Tzara. Although other visits were announced in this prospectus (i.a. "Musée du Louvre, (...) Gare Saint-Lazare, Mont du Petit Cadenas (...)") this first excursion, on April 14th 1921, remained the only one that took place, due to lack of success.
- Wrappers vaguely foxed.
= Global Avantgarde Great Britain 20. The first issue of a rare periodical, that promoted the idea that science was as relevant to aesthetics, literary criticism, and poetry as to its own areas of inquiry. Contains contributions by i.a. the editors, E.M. Wilson, E.E. Phoar, Louis Le Breton and T.H. White.
- Backwr. sl. soiled and sm. dam. in upper margin; dustwr. otherwise restored and (on verso) strengthened in margins.
Sabsay, N. Hurricane. Ibid., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931, 1st ed., (8),434p., orig. white cl. w. dec. in black and w. dustwr. des. by ERMAKOFF.
- Owner's entry on verso htitle.
Woolf, V. Three Guineas. London, The Hogartsh Press, 1938, 1st ed., 329p., orig. cl. w. dustwr. (frontwr. only) by VANESSA BELL.
- Owner's entry on first free endpaper.
- Wrappers trifle yellowed and some vague foxing; lacks tiny portion of upper blank frontwr.; very vague horizontal fold.
= McKnight Kauffer was one of the founder members of The Film Society. Listing all films shown by The Film Society since its formation in 1925. With the bookplate of Christopher Brunel, son of screenwriter and film director Adrian Brunel, who was member of the executive council of The Film Society. Rare.
= Extremely rare periodical published by British R.A.F. soldiers stationed at H.M.S. Vaira, the present Sulur Air Force Station.
= Global Avantgarde Portugal 14.
Inêz, A. Oiça, António Ferro! Lisbon, Imprensa Beleza, 1933, 43p., orig. wr. w. anonymous design
- Sl. yellowed/ foxed; spine ends sl. dam. = Global Avantgarde Portugal 19.
AND 2 others: H. BORDEAUX/ R. GÓMEZ DE LA SERNA, El amor y la dicha/ Greguerías escogideas (Madrid etc., n.d. (±1924), 2 works in 1 vol. (as published), orig. wr. w. anonymous design. Sl. foxed) and PLAISIR DE BIBLIOPHILE, year 6, no.23 (Paris, 1930, ills., orig. wr. w. design in black and purple, monogrammed "PB". With the loosely inserted frontwr. of another issue w. the same design in black and green).
- Sl. yellowed. Dustwr. yellowed and brittle, lacks large portions of backstrip and has (sm.) damages at extremities.
Hutchins, G. Labor and Silk. Ibid., International Publishers, (1929), 192p., ills. by ESTHER SHEMITZ, orig. cl. w. dustwr. des. by LOUIS LOZOWICK.
- Dustwr. chipped/ sl. dam. at spine-ends and corners.
- Fine.
= Le Fonds Paul Destribats 946. The first of only 2 issues that were published, under the patronage of Le Corbusier, Didier Daura, Albert Gleize, Fernand Léger and Fredo Sides.
= Offprint from the January issue of Architectural Forum, The Magazine of Building, produced in connection with a comprehensive exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright's work. Contains summaries in Italian, German, French and Russian on recto and verso of backwr.
Byggmästaren. Utsällings nummer. Stockholm, n.publ., 1930, "Upplaga A", 56,92p., ills., adverts., orig. wr. w. anonymous design, 4to.
- Wrappers sl. yellowed.
= Rare. The words "Freccia" (Italian) as wel as "Vélos" (Greek) mean Arrow.
= Attractive typespecimen leaf for the typeface designed by Paul Renner, probably published as addendum to a periodical.