- Paper shelf ticket at foot of spine; backwr. sl. creased. = Rypson p.98f; Kurc-Maj p.302.
- The plan torn in two; loose(ning) and brittle. Sold w.a.f.
= Visitor's guide to Leningrad published shortly after the renaming of the city. Probably the first such publication using the new name.
- Sl. yellowed; some sm. (repaired) tears in margins.
- Wrapper dustsoiled and sl. mouldy/ stained along edges and in corners (also sl. affecting interior); sm. stamp and annot. on frontwr.
= Rowell/ Wye 834. Important periodical of the OSA (Obyedinenie Sovremennykh Arkhitektov - Union of Modern Architects), founded by members of constructivist artists' collective LEF. This issue devoted to the construction of the large Hydroelectric Station on the Dniepr river.
- Some markings/ annots. in pencil and pen; title-p. and first lvs. sl. waterst. in margins; final lvs. trifle mouldy. Wr. sl. creased and worn; pink stain on backwr.
= Global Avantgarde Turkey 13.
- Orig. frontwr. soiled, frayed and some rubbed spots and (repaired) tears.
= Global Avantgarde Peru 10; Diagramming Modernity p.546. One of 200 copies printed on Tamar paper, SIGNED and "Ejemplar: Ch." by the author and w. AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on htitle.
- Inner leaf some handling creases. Spine strengthened on inside.
= Global Avantgarde France 3.
- With manuscript entry.
= Global Avantgarde Germany 86. Extremely rare. "Kommen Sie am 4 Februar auf "Die schiefe Ebene"? Das Winterfest des Akademischen Architekten-Vereins Hannover! Das Fest ohne Attraktionen! Aber: Licht. Farbe. Raum. Tempo! Bauhaus-Kapelle-Dessau! (...) Nicht wahr? Sie Kommen! (...)".
- Partly w. some pencil annotations and underlings. Fine copy.
= Global Avantgarde Czechoslovakia 6; Avantgarda 22; Futurisms in the World p.184f: "Linked to themes and places typical of modernity (transatlantic liners, aeroplanes, the wireless telegraph, radio, electricity, jazz bands, New York, cocktails, the music-hall, advertising etc.), it echoes the experimentation of the Futurist words on many pages, with blank spaces, a variety of typefaces, collages of adverts, onomatopoeias, etc."
- Vertical fold throughout; sl. worn and thumbed. Wrappers foxed and soiled; sm. tear in upper blank margin frontwr. and fore-edge margin backwr.; spine-ends split. Cut-out advert (on blue paper) for Nasci ("Sie können hier zum erste Male aus der Zukunft zurückblocken in unsere Gegenwart") and Hahnepeter mounted on inside frontwr.
= Rattemeyer/ Helms 19; Schmalenbach p.53; Global Avantgarde Germany 57; Le Fonds Paul Destribats 204; Bolliger I, 421; II, 524; Schwarz 91. Typography by EL LISSITZKY, with an introduction by the same and illustrations of works by Malewitsch, El Lissitzky, Mondriaan, Schwitters, Archipenko, Arp, Oud, Mies van der Rohe, Tatlin, Braque and Man Ray, each w. a short commentary in German and French. "Das Heft is ein Versuch, unter dem Motto "Natur von lat. NASCI" die "internationale Kunstproduktion der Gegenwart" aufzuzeigen und auf Analogien von natürlichen und geschaffenen Formen hinzuweisen." (Rattemeyer/ Helms).
- Sl. yellowed as usual; annot. "G. Rietveld" on verso frontwr.; 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".
- Vertical middle fold throughout. Frontwr. sl. yellowed and browned along (worn and partly splitting) middle fold (first 2 lvs. also yellowed along middle fold).
= Rattemeyer/ Helms p.23 (full-p. ill.) and no.57; Le Fonds Paul Destribats 204; Schmalenbach p.187; Bolliger III, 191 and 193 and IV, 380. Contains i.a. the highly important programmatic text "Ich und meine Ziele".
- Spine-ends and top edge of covers sl. worn. = Global Avantgarde Russia 59; Rowell/ Wye 910.
- The fold. leaf stained and partly torn; bookplate and owner's entry (of poet and literary critic Konstantin Pozdnyaev) on upper pastedown/ first free endpaper. Wr. trifle worn along extremities.
= With the often lacking fold. supplemental leaf. Lissitzky-Küppers 121 and p.93; El Lissitzky, Retrospektive 217; Compton, Russian avant-garde books p.93; Rowell/ Wye 750 and p.215. For the frontcover Lissitzky used his photographic double-portrait of Hans Arp.
- Fine copy.
= Global Avantgarde Lithuania 4; Jankevičiūtė p.139. Publication of the Keturi Vëjai (Four Winds) futurist group.
- Wrappers sl. yellowed, mainly along margins.
= This title not in Carteret and Monod. Contains short introd. texts to the sections by André Warnod ("Le cirque"), Louis Léon-Martin ("Music-hall") and Léon Moussinac ("Cinéma").
Vaillat, L. Le visage français du Maroc. Paris, Horizons de France, 1931, 116,(3)p., 83 plates w. photogr. ills. (also incl. a few maps), orig. wr. w. anonymous des. in black and green, 4to.
- Trifle age-toned. (Very) fine copy.
= Global Avantgarde Belgium 21; Henkels p.40. The first edition of the second publication by Seuphor (pseudonym of Fernand Louis Berckelaers).
- Retored spot in frontwr.; upper hinge weak.
= Global Avantgarde Latvia 51; Fraser Y33 and p.260ff. Mark Shats-Anin was a prolific Jewish publisher and author in (Soviet) Latvia.
- Loose(ning); backstrip worn off; backwr. renewed. = Lissitzky-Küppers p.25.
- One plate torn and loosening; bookplates and tickets on pastedowns; blindstamp in orig. frontwr.