- Spine-ends trifle worn. A good/ fine copy. = Global Avantgarde Georgia 42.
AND 1 other publ. by the same (1929) w. similar wrapper design prob. by the same unidentified artist (Global Avantgarde Georgia 38).
= Both very rare.
- Htitle w. some restorations; sl. yellowed. Wrapper sl. creased.
= Global Avantgarde Georgia 22; Chepyzhov 26. Leading Georgian symbolist Galaktion Tabidze was among the few Georgians to have witnessed the Russian Revolution first-hand. There he fell under the spell of John Reed, American journalist and author of "Ten Days That Shook The World", to whom this poem is dedicated. Very rare.
- Owner's stamp in title-p.
= Global Avantgarde Lithuania 18; Futurisms in the World p.677. Publication of the Keturi Vëjai (Four Winds) futurist group. Very rare.
- Lacks backwr.; frontwr. creased and chipped; backstrip for the larger part worn off.
= Publication on civil architecture. With (text) contributions by i.a. El Lissitzky.
- Without the orig. wr. (identical to the title-page, but printed in blue). One letterpiece sl. rubbed.
= Global Avantgarde Mexico 19; México Illustrado p.168-169; Diagramming Modernity p.476. Rare.
- Lower (blank) margin sl. waterwrinkled; backstrip trifle worn.
= Global Avantgarde Lithuania 26; Jankevičiūtė p.144f; Futurisms in the World p.683ff. Five issues were published between 1930 and 1931. "The editorial-manifesto [in this issue], made up according to Futurist-Constructivist typographic principles, spoke of a Futurist dominance of literature" (Futurisms in the World).
- Trifle waterwrinkled in upper corner.
= Global Avantgarde Lithuania 27; Jankevičiūtė p.144f; Futurisms in the World p.683ff. Five issues were published between 1930 and 1931.
- Backstrip trifle worn; edges of wrappers sl. creased.
= Global Avantgarde Lithuania 28; Jankevičiūtė p.144f; Futurisms in the World p.683ff. Five issues were published between 1930 and 1931.
- Owner's entry in col. pencil on first leaf; trifle foxed at the beginning and end (backwr. sl. worse). Backstrip dam.
= Global Avantgarde Lithuania 29; Jankevičiūtė p.144f; Futurisms in the World p.683ff. Five issues were published between 1930 and 1931.
- Backstrip dam.
= Global Avantgarde Lithuania 30; Jankevičiūtė p.144f; Futurisms in the World p.683ff. Five issues were published between 1930 and 1931.
- Annot. and postal stamp on backwr.
= Global Avantgarde Bulgaria 39. Monthly periodical promoting sobriety and a cultivated lifestyle.
- Bookblock sl. warped; partly loosening.
= Global Avantgarde Greece 6. Warranted by the author on verso title-p.
Lountemis, M. Ta ploia den araxan... (Ibid.), Govostis, (1931), 133p., contemp./ later cl., orig. frontwr. w. anonymous design pres.
- Frontwr. trimmed. = Global Avantgarde Greece 4 (other work with the same design).
- Dedication/ owner's entry on title-p.; sl. yellowed. Upper corner backcover chipped.
= Chepyzhov 23: "This is one of the first collections of Georgian Dadaistic poems which established Grigol Tsetskhladze's role as the main representative of Dadaist ideas in Georgian literature."
- Spine worn; upper corner of backcover restored. = Herzfelde 33; Pachnicke/ Honnef 60-69 and cat. 329-339.
- One quire loose; wr. w. old vertical fold. = Jac. Jongert 1883-1942, 'proeven is koopen', p.94.
= One of 20 copies (of a total of 50 numb. copies on Japanese) bound in full vellum, with handpainted decoration in colours and gold on frontcover by JAROSLAV KRÁTKÝ, purple silk pastedowns, a.e.g., SIGNED by the artist in the colophon. Global Avantgarde Czechoslovakia 26 (other copy).
- Frontwrapper loose; backstrip worn off; backwr. loosenining.
= El Lissitzky Retrospektive 260f; Lissitzky-Küppers p.96ff; Parr/ Badger p.148-149: "Any discussion of the soviet propaganda photobook of the 1930s must begin not with an individual book, but with a magazine. Between 1930 and 1940, USSR in Construction employed the best Soviet photojournalists and graphic designers. (...) They were undoubtely the best in their field, and the very nature of the magazine, a lavishly produced monthly published in four separate editions - Russian, English, German and French (and later, Spanish) - ensured that the magazine's editorial offices became a hothouse of ideas."
- Waterst. in upper inner margin.
= Global Avantgarde Bulgaria 19; Jacono 40. Literary monthly founded by Simeon Marinov. "Ugari's modernist agenda is reflected in the illustrations, particularly, however, in partly constructivist cover designs. (...) The cover of issue 6-7 by Nikola Blagoev, with an intersection of converging geometrical elements and title lettering, is reminiscent of Lissitzky's Berlin magazine Vesch" (Jacono). Very rare.
- Fine, unfolded condition.
= Extremely rare. The avantgarde periodical UNU was published between 1928-1932 and edited by Romanian poet Sacha PANA (1902-1981), who also supported it by his financial means. UNU became one of the most important periodicals of Romanian avantgarde with collaborators like Tristan Tzara, Victor Brauner, Geo Bogza, and others.
Ilk, Mişcarea de la UNU p.61; Ilk, Brancusi, Tzara und die Rumänische Avantgarde K409: "Mit der Ankündigung des Buches PRIVILISTI von Fundoianu. Wortspiel (mit dem Wort UNU), abgeleitet von FUNDOIANU: F. UNU DOIA UNU." Provenance: Sasche PANA Collection.
- Fine, unfolded condition.
= Extremely rare. Ilk, Mişcarea de la UNU p.67; Ilk, Brancusi, Tzara und die Rumänische Avantgarde K412: [text] "UNU, die literarische Zeitschrift". Provenance: Sascha PANA Collection.