Mein Freund Ludwig Bremen den 2. Juni 1924
1924228088Wilhelmshaven & Bremen: Self-published by the author at Ad. Heine & K. Jager 1924. Hardcover. 30p. 15p. appendix 5.75x6.5 inches text in German fraktur type illustrated with cartoons and caricatures rubricated drop-cap initials worn limited first edition #86/150 copies bookplate on front pastedown endpaper personal inscription in German signed by Roselius hinge cracked at first blank sewn textblock in original green boards with gilt title on cover sunned at edges and spine. Ludwig Roselius was a coffee merchant and promoter of art and politics in Bremen. He developed commercial decaffeination and supported artists including Paula Modersohn-Becker. He created Böttcherstrasse a street designed in the German Expressionist style which was destroyed by Hitler as degenerate art. Roselius had met with Hitler in 1922 and supported him and the Nazi Party in the early years but was denied membership in the Party due to his support of degenerate art. The book was produced in-house by company members the artist was an employee and the Appendix is a commemoration of Roselius' 50th birthday. Rickmers was a Munich mountaineer and art collector. Four holdings located in OCLC as of 8/2018. Self-published by the author at Ad. Heine & K. Jager hardcover books
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