- Sl. worn/ sm. tears on intersection of folds.
= The illustrations showing 14 different models, photographs of people driving the cars and a diagram of the chassis of the car.
ADDED: 2 unrelated brochures for typewriters by Seidel & Naumann, Dresden ("Ideal" model, w. 2 loosely inserted leaflets for the "Erika" model) and for "Vierdaagsche Muziekfeest" organised by Bureau O.P.G.A.N.G., 1924.
- Leaves sl. loosening. Dustwr. sl. frayed.
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. Boards trifle browned; gilding on spine partly sl. faded.
= Braches 360.
- Without the 4 bookpublications and the box.
= The DELUXE edition of the catalogue for the Marcel Duchamp exhibition at Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerpen, September 15 - December 15, 1991. Colophon: "The (...) catalogue (...) consists of the following items: a list of the exhibits; a portfolio with faithful reproductions of works by Duchamp, also including a copy of H. Vuibert, Les anaglyphes géométriques, Paris, Librairie Vuibert, 1912 (with 3D-glasses) and a reproduction of a page from The Blind Man No. 2 (P.B.T.); a book with articles on Duchamp by André Breton and Arturo Schwarz (inserted, on a seperate sheet, a reproduction of Le Grand Verre); an audiocassette of Duchamp speaking; a single photograph of "Marcel Duchamp at the age Eighty-Five" for View's special Marcel Duchamp number; this very colophon. All these items are packed in a wooden box, the top and bottom of which being reproductions of Duchamp's 'mental' Chess Board."
= The DELUXE edition of the catalogue for the Marcel Duchamp exhibition at Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerpen, September 15 - December 15, 1991. Colophon: "The (...) catalogue (...) consists of the following items: a list of the exhibits [with a grease stain]; a portfolio with faithful reproductions of works by Duchamp, also including a copy of H. Vuibert, Les anaglyphes géométriques, Paris, Librairie Vuibert, 1912 (with 3D-glasses) and a reproduction of a page from The Blind Man No. 2 (P.B.T.); a book with articles on Duchamp by André Breton and Arturo Schwarz (inserted, on a seperate sheet, a reproduction of Le Grand Verre); an audiocassette of Duchamp speaking; a single photograph of "Marcel Duchamp at the age Eighty-Five" for View's special Marcel Duchamp number; this very colophon. All these items are packed in a wooden box, the top and bottom of which being reproductions of Duchamp's 'mental' Chess Board."
- 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.