- Owner's entry on title-p. Frontwr. creased/ sl. worn and reattached; backstrip sl. dam.
= Global Avantgarde Lithuania 33; Fraser R12. Lithuanian translation of Ilya Ehrenburg's widely popular Thirteen Pipes.
- Right margin of frontwr. sl. trimmed. = Global Avantgarde Poland 21; Rypson p.137.
- Backstrip sl. worn.
= Global Avantgarde Hungary 22. With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on htitle. Very rare.
- Yellowed. Wrappers loose(ning) and rather brittle; backstrip dam.
= El Lissitzky Retrospektive 79; Rowell/ Wye 403; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34, p.96. The first of four issues published, containing literary contributions by i.a. Andrei Belyj, Boris Pilnyak and Aleksei Remizov.
- Sm. owner's entry on title-p. Backstrip sl. worn/ dam. (lacking approx. 3,5 cm. at the foot). Very good, untrimmed copy.
= One of 30 copies on "Hollande Zonen Van Gelder" [sic]. Series Collection des tracts, no.6. Text by one of the pioneers of avant garde and modernist cinema, with design and illustrations inspired by constructivism and Dada. Global Avantgarde France 15; Andel p.294; The Avantgarde Applied p.227; Futurisms in the World p.436: "(...) containing poems, prose, reproductions of paintings, manifestos, pages with typographic compositions and a photographic portrait of the Russian actress Alle Nazimova that recalls the Photodynamism of the Bragaglia Brothers."
- Backstrip sl. browned and w. some rubbed spots at extremities. = Monod 4278.
- Paper (especially first lvs.) rather brittle.
= Global Avantgarde France 44; Rowell/ Wye 711; not in Vloemans. First separate edition.
- Textlvs. yellowed as usual. Wr. sl. browned and sl. worn along edges.
= Lissitzky-Küppers no.65; cat. Sprengel Museum Hannover no.72; Andel p.159. The catalogue of the landmark exhibition of Russian art in Berlin and Amsterdam, an event which - along with the Der Sturm exhibition of that year - decisively introduced modern Russian art into the mainstream of Western culture. The catalogue lists all works shown at the exhibition and contains reproductions of a number of these works, i.a. by Malevich, Rodchenko and Tatlin.
- Frontwr. sl. yellowed and w. sm. dam./ worn spot (strengthened on verso).
= Global Avantgarde Georgia 18; Chepyzhov 27.
= Global Avantgarde Great Britain 20 (other issue). 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.E. Phare, John Davenport and Malcolm Lowry.
- Yellowed; some occas. foxing; 1 text-p. stained, htltle loosening; title-p. w. narrow waterst. in lower blank margin/ corner. Backstrip sl. dam.
= Global Avantgarde Uruguay 5; Diagramming Modernity p.589; Boglioni p.6; Futurisms in the World p.1190ff: "Alfredo Mario Ferreiro, described by Jorge Luis Borges as the only true Futurist poet he had ever known (...). His first book of poems was El hombre (...), which tackled the theme of modern life and glorified the achievements of technology with a Marinettian emphasis laced with a heavy dose of irony (...)". With AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on htitle. Extremely rare; one of the most important work of Uruguayan avantgarde.
= Global Avantgarde Argentina 15; Futurisms in the World p.30ff; Libros Argentinos p.392; Diagramming Modernity p.122.
- Wrappers sl. foxed and creased.
= Rare publication on the wealthy German industrialist Hugo Stinnes (1870-1924), with a remarkable portrait on the frontwrapper composed of small photomontages. The foreword by Karel Radek, who fell from grace with the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, led to the book being withdrawn from circulation.
- Title-p. and last p. sl. browned from offsetting of verso wr. Spine trifle worn.
= Global Avantgarde Netherlands 27; not in Van Dam/ Van Praag.
Levisson, L. Drukken en drukwerk.The Hague, Drukkerij Levisson, (1927), 56p., 1 full-p. woodcut ill. by CHRIS LEBEAU, (col.) ills. (mainly) by HERMAN MOERKERK, orig. wr. des. by MACHIEL WILMINK, large 8vo.
- Two pages w. traces of tape. Wr. sl. yellowed, sl. rubbed and w. traces of tape along backstrip; rebacked w. plain red cl.oth.
= Global Avantgarde Netherlands 32.
AND 1 other: OUDHEIDKUNDIGE KRING "DE VIER AMBACHTEN", Jaarboek 1930 (n.pl., (1930), ills., orig. wr. des. by monogrammist "SH", 4to. Sl. waterst. in fore-edge margin; spine sl. dam.).
- Both vols. partly split (repaired) on horizontal (no.1 also vertical) middle fold; no.1 one corner repaired and 1 fore-edge margin strengthened w. tape.
= Bolliger III, 172 (no. 1, 3 and 4); IV, 360 (no. 1, 2 and 5/6); VI, 763 (no. 1-5/6). First 2 issues of this highly important and extremely rare avantgarde periodical on art, literature, architecture, film and technical sciences, of which in total 5 issues were published. Contains contributions by Mies van der Rohe, L. Hilberseimer and T. van Doesburg.
AND a badly waterstained copy of "G". ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ELEMENTARE GESTALTUNG, no.3 (ibid., 1924, ills., orig. wr. by MIES VAN DER ROHE, large 8vo. Wr. soiled; spine dam.).
= The Avantgarde Applied p.243.
- Flattened vertical fold; wr. sl. fingersoiled and loosening; backwr. w. rubbed spot and closed tear.
= Le Fonds Paul Destribats 203; Global Avantgarde Germany 79; Bolliger III, 172 (no. 1, 3 and 4); cf. idem IV, 360 (no. 1, 2 and 5/6); idem VI, 763 (no. 1-5/6). Fourth issue of this highly important and extremely rare avantgarde periodical on art, literature, architecture, film and technical sciences, of which in total 5 issues were published. Contains contributions by i.a. H. Richter ("G"), K. Malevitsch, W. Gräff and M. Raynal.
- Sl. yellowed due to the quality of the paper.
= Global Avantgarde Chile 16; Diagramming Modernity p.325. With extensive autograph signed dedication to Pablo de Roka, "hombre fuerte, poeta del tamano de este siglo, humorista incomparable, hofetada en las narices de las escritores asumagados", dated 1934.
- Backwrapper creased and sl. worn along spine; backstrip lacks portions; frontwr. trifle waterst. and spotted.
= Lavretyev, Aleksei Gan p.56ff; Rowell/ Wye 387 and ill. p.200; Lemmens/ Stommels, Russian Book Art 1904-2005, p.79: "In 1921, Aleksei Gan became one of the founding members of The First Working Group of Constructivists, with artists such as Rodchenko, Stepanova and Tatlin. In 1922 he wrote and published the book Constructivism. In many ways this was a crucial book because it shifted the focus from 'fine art' towards utilitarian objectives in art".
= Cf. Global Avantgarde Netherlands 23 (other issue w. wr. des. by Van Ravesteijn).
AND 2 other issues of De Gemeenschap: year 1, no.4 and year 2, no.1, both with wr. des. by W. MAAS.
= Global Avantgarde Netherlands 22 and cf.21 (other issue for the same w. similar design by W. Maas).
- Wrappers sl. faded and some soiling; backstrip worn. = Global Avantgarde Netherlands 24, p.286.
AND 1 other issue of De Gemeenschap, year 6, no.6 w. orig. wr. design by Paul SCHUITEMA (spine worn).