One of fifty copies, signed by both the translator and artist, of this livre d'artiste edition of six Schwitters poems.
Fine.
Price: $2,000.00
"The book is an homage to Schwitters. How to do his work justice if not in an earnest play?" — Barbara Fahrner
From Steven Clay's noted press, an exuberant fine-press interpretation of the great German avant garde poet. Influenced by Schwitters own typographic constructivism, includes version of his poems "Die Wiese," "Wunde Rosen bluten," "Die Rabenblute," "Es ist Herbst," "Leise," and "Banalitaten aus dem Chinesischem." A handsome production from an important press.
Read more: Steven Clay, When Will The Book Be Done?, 150-151 (Granary 42).
New York City: Granary Books, 1996. 12.5'' x 12''. Original beige linen-covered boards, with mounted paper spine label ("Schwitters"). [32] pages. #19/50 copies (10 hors commerce and forty for sale, plus one artist's proof), signed by both Rotheberg and Fahrner. From the colophon: "designed by Barbara Fahrner and printed by Dieter Sdun in Dreieich, Germany on a Korrex-machine using the typefaces Bodoni, Legende, Koch-Antiqua, Futura, Glass-Antiqua and Candida. The paper is Arches. The drawings were made by the artist using pen, ink, watercolour, linocut and cliche-print. The bindings were made by Jill Jevne." Slightest lean. Else sharp, clean, sound, and bright.
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