- Fine copy. Slipcase some defects: waterst. w. small surface dam. on frontcover; some soiling/ fading; edges sl. worn.
= Deluxe copy, printed in 150 numb. copies on Vélin de Rives. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE V.
= In the form of a flipbook.
= "Ideal and practice of architectural training at the Bauhaus, based on the lecture notes made by the Dutch ex-Bauhaus student and architect J.J. van der Linden of the Mies van der Rohe curriculum" (subtitle).
AND 6 others relating to the Bauhaus, i.a. J. SCHMIDT, Lehre und Arbeit am Bauhaus 1919-32 (Düsseldorf, 1984, ills., orig. wr., 4to); W. HERZOGENRATH (ed.), Bauhaus Utopien. Arbeiten auf Papier (Stuttg., Ed. Cantz., 1988, (col.) ills., orig. wr., 4to) and 2 vols. from the series Neue Bauhausbücher (by L. MOHOLY-NAGY (1967) and P. MONDRIAAN (1974), orig. unif. cl. w. dustwr.).
- Mediocre copy: horizontal and vertical middle folds; worn/ split on folds (partly extending into text; partly repaired w. tape); soiled and a few stains (1x rubbed w. loss of text).
= Bolliger IV, 330 ("seltenen Zeitschrift"), VI, 735. First issue of the rare periodical published by Bauhaus. Contains contributions by i.a. WALTER GROPIUS ("Statt einer Vorrede: Walter Gropius: Bauhaus-Chronik 1925/1926" and "Bauhausneubau Dessau"), WASSILY KANDINSKY ("Der Wer des theoretischen Unterreichts in der Malerei") and LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY ("Geradlinigkeit des Geistes - Umwege der Technik").
- Mediocre copy: 2 horizontal (middle) folds; worn/ split on folds (partly repaired w. tape) and frayed/ chipped (partly strengthened/ repaired); soiled.
= Bolliger IV, 330 ("seltenen Zeitschrift"), VI, 735. Rare. Contains KONRAD VON MEYENBURG, "Kultur von Pflanzen, Tieren, Menschen".
- (Vague) vertical middle fold throughout (splitting at ends on wr., repaired on verso); (sl.) soiled.
= Andel p.194; Bolliger IV, 330 ("seltenen Zeitschrift"), VI, 735. Rare. Contains contributions by i.a. LASZLO MOHOLY NAGY ("Fotografie is Lichtgestaltung") and HERBERT BAYER ("Typografie und Werbsachengestaltung"). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE V.
- Wr. soiled; spine pasted over w. tape.
= Bolliger IV, 330 ("seltenen Zeitschrift"), VI, 735. Rare. Contains contributions by i.a. ERNST KÁLLAI ("Das Bauhaus lebt!"), JOSEF ALBERS ("Werklicher Formunterricht"), WASSILY KANDINSKY ("Kunstpädagogik"), PAUL KLEE ("Exakte Versuche im Bereich der Kunst") and OSKAR SCHLEMMER ("Unterrichtsgebiete").
- Wr. sl. soiled.
= Bolliger IV, 330 ("seltenen Zeitschrift"), VI, 735. Rare. Contains contributions by i.a. ERNST KÁLLAI ("Bescheiden Malerei!"), NAUM GABO ("Gestaltung?") and HANNES MEYER ("Bauen").
- Waterwrinkled and some sl. occas. foxing; 1 leaf lacks portion from lower blank corner; a few lvs. w. sm. tear in blank margins. Wrappers sl. soiled; spine worn and split at foot.
= Bolliger IV, 330 ("seltenen Zeitschrift"), VI, 735. Rare. Contains contributions by i.a. HANNES MEYER ("Bauhaus und Gesellschaft"), MART STAM ("Entwurf zu einem Bürogebäude") and "Bauhausstil" ("Polemik zwischen MARIANNE BRANDT and NAUM GABO").
- Frontleaf lacks tiny portion from fore-edge margin; trifle soiled.
= Rare brochure. Not in Bolliger. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE V.
- Binding foxed/ soiled; backstrip and margins of covers sunned.
= Bauhausbücher 1. Passuth p.52-54; Bolliger I, 34 and IV, 10a (both 1st ed.).
- Trifle (water)wrinkled; first and last few lvs. (sl.) foxed; upper hinge weak. Binding soiled and dec. sl. rubbed; spine-ends and corners worn.
= Bauhausbücher 7. Passuth p.52-54; Bolliger I, 36; II, 23 and IV, 10f.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Binding sl. spotted.
= Bauhausbücher 8, ed. W. Gropius and L. Moholy-Nagy. Lang 84; Parr/ Badger p.92f.
- Wrappers sl. worn and scratched; fold in upper corner frontwr.
= Rare original edition. The N.E. Thing Co. of the Canadian conceptual art duo Ingrid and Iain Baxter utilized an abstracted business model to interrogate art, domestic systems, corporate strategy and everyday life using photography, information technology and installation-based artworks. Described as a "compendium of company ideas," Companies Act is perhaps the most important art book by the "company". It contains 362 collage-like pages comprised of their most critical works, including hand-written descriptions providing great insight into the process and intent of the N.E. Thing Company. Companies Act was an artwork created for N.E. Thing Co.s contribution to Kunsthalle Basels 1978 "Younger Canadian Artists" exhibition. Kunsthalle curator, Jean-Christophe Ammann knew that N.E. Thing Co. would represent Canada; the question was how. With an oeuvre such as theirs, one artwork would not suffice, and he felt that a "telephone book" worth of work would be the best and only way to represent the ideas, projects and works of the N.E. Thing Co.
ADDED: Long, R. Inca Rock Campfire Ash. Edinb., Robert Self, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1974, (27)p., maps, photogr. ills., orig. wr., obl. folio.
- Wr. slightly soiled.
- Mostly w. blindst. ex-libris.
= Rare.
- Endpapers sl. foxed. A sm. tear in frontcover.
= Documenting the happening "24 Stunden" (24 hours) that began at midnight on June 5, 1965 at the Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, with artists Joseph Beuys, Bazon Brock, Rolf Jährling, Ute Klophaus, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Eckart Rahn and Tomas Schmit. Contains flour in a sealed plastic bag in the final part of the work.