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1930 · 160480 — Berlin: Verlag Hermann Reckendorf GMBH 1930. Hardcover. Volumes are clean and tight but with slightly skewed bindings and scuffing to covers. Leather at head/tail of spines is worn. Auxiliary items are clean; paper covers to memorial booklet are tearing. Both volumes: Textured cinnamon paper/boards; gilt script lettering. 3/4 leather with gilt lettering on spine. Bw frontis portrait and occasional bw plates. Vol. I: 205 pp.; Vol. II: 264 pp. This set was published a year after Bode's death. Laid in are an original obituary from March 2 1929 from the Hannoversdten Tageblattes; a booklet written to the memory of Bode on the anniversary of his 90th year 1935 by Friedrich Wintler German art expert/author; and an excerpt from "Berlin" by Walter Kisulehn which mentions Bode typed out for separately in 1969 for the owner of all these items William Suhr conservator at the Frick Collection. All texts in German. The obituary and memorial booklet are in Old German script but the books and typed sheets are in contemporary script. The autobiography of German art historian and curator Wilhelm von Bode. He was creator and first curator of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin which was renamed the Bode Museum in honor of Bode. Verlag Hermann Reckendorf GMBH hardcover books