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19303314Budapest: Epitök könyvtára 1930 Quarto wrappers 64pp. Cover design by Farkas Molnár. The author 1883-1954 was an outlier by birth achieving fame for his short stories and novellas. Later recognition was had from his socio-political writings and he initially had a strong influence in early postwar Hungary. The present work is experimental and was produced as he explored new avenues of expression. Cover artist Farkas Molnar renowned for his architecture and design work was a critical component in the Hungarian interwar avant-garde. Rare with one North American library holding. Budapest: Epitök könyvtára paperback
19303047Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann 1930. Small quarto-sized in wrappers 11 pages text 60 photographic plates. First edition. Introduction by Franz Roh. Designed by Jan Tschichold. Text in German English and French. Thin quarto. Photographically illustrated wrappers. Slight erosion at the paper spine slight soiling else a near fine copy. The first study to concentrate on the important Bauhaus artist's photography. Klinkhardt & Biermann unknown books
1940311Budapest: Cserépfalvi 1940. First edition. In original half cloth. With the rare photographically illustrated dust jacket. The book is in fine condition./Dust jacket chipped on front at upper edges and teared on the rear otherwise fine. Photographs and typography by Lajos Lengyel. Photographs and typography by Lajos Lengyel. First edition. In original half cloth. With the rare photographically illustrated dust jacket. 60 6 p. 9 plates 16 photographs. <p><br /> Contains four essays and two poems about the recently died dancer and three theoretical writings of her.<br /> <p><p><br /> Etel Nagy 1907–1939 was a pioneer of modern dance in Hungary. She was Lajos Kassák’s adopted daughter. Studied at Gertrud Kraus’ school in Vienna. Later she opened her own school in Budapest. <br /> <p><p><br /> Lajos Lengyel 1904–1978 graphic artist typographer and photographer. In his early years he was involved in the modernist movements member of Kassák’s Munka-Circle. As typographer he won the Gutenberg-prize in 1965.<br /> <p>. Cserépfalvi unknown
19472062Budapest: Kossuth Irodalmi és Konyvkiadóvállalat 1947. First edition. In publisher’s half cloth lettered in gilt on front panel and spine. With scarce photographic dust jacket. Dust jacket somewhat chipped at extremities. Tanned. Otherwise in fine condition. First edition. In publisher’s half cloth lettered in gilt on front panel and spine. With scarce photographic dust jacket. 422 2 p. and 12 plates with photographs some double-page. <p><br /> Scarce account on the Holocaust with 44 photographic illustrations showing the horror of the concentration camps.<br /> <p><p><br /> The book includes several personal accounts by survivors and photographs taken in Belsen Buchenwald Nordhausen Dachau Mittel Glattbach Gotha Ohrdruf and Schwabmünchen Hurlach Kaufering IV as well as photographs of the execution of László Endre and Ferenc Szálasi the leader of the National Socialist Arrow Cross Party the Hungarian Nazi Party and a 280-page list of the known victims of the Hungarian Holocaust.<br /> <p>. Kossuth Irodalmi és Konyvkiadóvállalat unknown
192654711Dessau: Bauhaus Dessau 1926. First edition. Softcover. Good condition. Folio 16 1/2 x 11 5/8". 6pp. Original illustrated glossy newsprint in black lettering. Pressious document providing insight into the first move of the Bauhaus in 1925/26. Contains a Gropius statement instead of a preface in the true style of change the Bauhaus stood for.<br /> <br /> "statt einer vorrede: walter gropius; bauhaus-chronik 1925/26 <br /> <br /> weihnachten 1924 auflösungserklärung des staatlichen bauhauses weimar durch die meister des bauhauses.<br /> <br /> april 1925 die stadt dessau ein zentrum des mitteldeutschen braunkohlereviers mit aufsteigender wirtschaftlicher entwicklung fat den beschluß geleitet von dem kulturellen weitblick seiner stadtverwaltung das bauhaus zu übernehmen.<br /> alle bisherigen meister - feininger gropius kandisnky klee moholy mucheschlemmer – verbleiben am bauhaus mit ausnahme von marcks der – da die keramische abteilung die er leitet aus räumlichen gründen nicht mit übernommen werden kann – eine berufung nach halle annimmt.<br /> <br /> 5 ehemalige bauhaus-studierende – albers bayer breuer scheper schmidt – werden als meister an das bauhaus berufen."<br /> <br /> With detailed Gropius report on new Bauhaus building and its phases of construction and completion. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs and architectural plans contributions by Schlemmer on the Bauhaus stage the Bauhaus film "Five Years" Kandinsky on theoretical instructions in lectures on painting as well as contributions by Moholy-Nagy Georg Muche on "art and industrial form" Bauhaus workshop products internal Bauhaus info including list of 10 Bauhaus books and a photo-illustrated Herbert Bayer advertisement of the "bauhaus gmbh" at rear.<br /> <br /> Text in German. Front page separated from others with tape residue and offsetting some light fraying content though intact and good shape. Bauhaus Dessau unknown
1929309977Munich: Albert Langen Verlag 1929. First edition. Illustrated with b/w photo reproductions throughout. 241 1 pp. with broadsheet advertisement for Klubsessel mit Stoffbespannung laid-in. 4to. Publisher's decorated yellow cloth stamped in red. Small tear to cloth at head of joints else fine. Small bookseller's ticket. First edition. Illustrated with b/w photo reproductions throughout. 241 1 pp. with broadsheet advertisement for Klubsessel mit Stoffbespannung laid-in. 4to. No. 14 in the Bauhausbücher series edited by Walter Gropius and Moholy-Nagy. Save for a small snag at the head of the spine a pristine copy. Albert Langen Verlag unknown books
1932279095New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932. First. hardcover. very good. Moholoy-Nagy. Translated by Daphne M. Hoffmann. Illustrated with 170 black & white images. 191 pages. Short slim 4to red-lettered gray cloth; spine sunned and with some light wear at ends; light foxing throughout heavier on first and last several pages. New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam Inc. 1932. First edition. A very good copy of this exceedingly scarce book.<br/><br/> Printed in Berlin by Felgentreff & Co. with cuts by C. Dunnhaupt Dessau -- Freitag 6626.<br/><br/> Brewer, Warren & Putnam unknown books
1924105142Berlin Der Sturm 1924 253x192mm Berlin, Der Sturm, décembre 1924, 253x192mm, 60p. numérotées de 177 à 233, , cousu sous couverture illustré d'un bois de Moholy Nagy. (105142)
19251656851925. MOHOLY-NAGY L. Malerei Photografie Film. 140 pp. include over 100 b&w illustrations. 4to publisher's cloth dust-jacket and glassine in a new cloth folding box. Munich Albert Langen Verlag 1925. Rare First Edition of this landmark work with typography dust jacket and design all by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Among the many illustrations are work by by Alfred Stieglitz F. M. Duncan Charlotte Rudolf Renger-Patzsch Moholy-Nagy Grünewald Consemüller J. B. Polak Man Ray Eckner Lohöfener Dr. Mabuse Muche Citroen Hannah Höch. This is Volume 8 of the series Bauhaus Bucher edited by Gropius and Moholy-Nagy. Some slight damage to the dust jacket which is also a later issue with Photographie spelled Fotografie. Nevertheless an exceptional copy. Wingler 563 8 - Heidtmann 5507 - Fleischmann 22 Bolliger VI 54. Andel Avant Garde Page Design 341-343. Fundacion Juan March The Avant-Garde Applied 1890-1950. No. L376 hardcover books
193651380Brno: Telehor 1936. First edition. Moholy-Nagy. 4to. 138 pp. color and b&w plates from paintings photographs photograms graphics and filmstrips. Metal spiral bound printed wrappers with original glassine over-wrapper and the plain tan paper outer wrapper which is chipped. There is a tiny bit of rubbing to the lower edge less than one sixteenth of an inch wide on the front wrapper; else fine near new including the plain black card that was issued to protect the rear wrapper. This is the rare variant issue with black wrappers and the artist's name on the front wrapper. Housed in a new clamshell box of cloth with a morocco foredge. This multilingual French English German and Czech international review published only this single combined volume. The entire issue is devoted to the work of Lazslo Moholy-Nagy his paintings photographs and graphics. Edited by Frantisek Kalivoda with texts by Moholy-Nagy including "From Pigment to light" "A new instrument of vision" "Problems of the modern film" and "Once a chicken always a chicken." The introduction is by Sigfried Giedion and a short a text by Frantisek Kalivoda. The first illustration shows the glassine over-wrapper. <br/><br/> Telehor hardcover books
