1 - 307 GLOBAL AVANTGARDE - MODERNIST TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN 1915-1950
- Final 2 lvs. w. whitish stain. Tiny hole in frontwr.
= Global Avantgarde Estonia 1 (other issue). Rare satirical periodical. In fact three Estonian periodicals were published under the name Odamees ("Spearman") between 1919 and 1922, this being the second of which 10 issues were published with August Alle as its chief editor.
- Front- and backwr. lack sm. portion of lower corner. Otherwise fine.
= Global Avantgarde Sweden 8. First edition of this important Scandinavian avant-garde novel.
- Frontwr. some careful repairs and strengthened/ extended on verso along upper and lower margin.
= Global Avantgarde Chile 4.
= Global Avantgarde Estonia 17; Geometrical Man p.45: "The illustrations for the Ormi Arp (Nigol Andresen) poetry collection Gloobus show Laarman's preparedness to go along with the rhythm of the songs of the time: Arp's proclamatory agit message about the parade of world collectivism is accompanied by Laarman's posterized woodcuts, where inscriptions and large numerals set the tone (...)". Märt Laarman was a prominent theoretician of the EKR (Eesti Kunstnikkude Rühm - The Group of Estonian Artists).
- Wrappers cut sl. short.
- Backstrip worn; upper joint splitting.
= Global Avantgarde Georgia 28. Hayk Petrosian was an Armenian born poet who moved to Tbilisi with his family at an early age.
- Wrappers trifle rubbed (not affecting decoration); frontwr. 2 restored spots in lower blank margin; spine-ends sl. dam. (backstrip lacking 1,5 cm. at the top).
= Global Avantgarde Estonia 16 (variant w. dec. in black and orange instead of black and blue); Graphic Modernism p.44.
- Lacks the plates by Robert Lotiron and Roger de Valério. = Rare.
La ligne de coeur. No.1. Ed. J. Lanoë. Nantes, n.publ., 1925, 72,(4 advert.)p., title-vignette by J.-E. LABOUREUR, orig. wr. w. an anonymous design.
= Le Fonds Paul Destribats 1017 (erroneously attrib. the wrapper design to Laboureur). Contains i.a. a poem by Jean Cocteau.
- Yellowed. Backstrip repaired and lacking portions at spine-ends.
= Global Avantgarde Albania 1. Montlly magazine of which 27 issues were published 1936-1939 and which is said to have been of great influence on the modernization of cultural life in pre-war Albania.
- Trifle yellowed; spine (incl. part of blank margin frontwr.) restored.
= Global Avantgarde France 48 (other issue w. wr. printed in black and red). "Jean Dréville (1906-1997) was the director of some forty feature films (...). In his youth, between the age of twenty and twenty-five, Jean Dréville experienced an intense creative period as photographer, graphic artist, assistant, magazine editor, critic, cameraman and director. A friend of the avant-garde (...) he developed a cinematic-photographic language between Pictorialism and Constructivism (...)" (www.mindseye.fr).
- Lacks title-p. Wr. sl. yellowed.
= Global Avantgarde Latvia 38. Fraser L294. One of the first publications of the Tagadne (Our Time) publishing house. "The cover designs (...) were certainly vanguard for Latvia and would have been noticed in any design competition of "late-flowering, constructivist design" appearing at that time in Moscow, Prague, or Berlin" (Fraser).
- Some sl. foxing. Wrappers trifle soiled; frontwr. lacks tiny portion from lower corned. Backstrip dam. (restored).
= Global Avantgarde Uruguay 20 (other issue w. variant wr.). Rare.
- Some sl. foxing. Wrappers trifle soiled. Backstrip dam. (restored). = Global Avantgarde Uruguay 20. Rare.
= Global Avantgarde Indonesia 1 (other issue). Indonesian avant-garde literary periodical published from 1933 to 1942.
- Partly trifle foxed. Otherwise fine.
= Rare publication promoting cinema as the superior art form over the obsolete, old art of theatre. With fine constructivist plates. Krichevsky, Nikolai Ilyin p.26ff ("the most radical leftwing publication ever illustrated by Ilyin").
- Stamps on title-p. Some rubbed spots on frontwr.
= Collection of articles on the events that took place in Nizhnyj Novgorod surrounding the 1905 Revolution.
AND 1 other: I. NECHAEV, Revolyutsia 1905 goda v Nizhegorodskom kraye (ibid., 1931, plates, orig. boards w. anonymous design).
- Partly cut sl. short; spines sl. worn.
- Stamps on title-p. 1st issue. Spines sl. worn.
Nauka i Tekhnika. Year 8, no.61. Leningrad, Krasnaya Gazeta, 1930, 24p., ills., orig. wr. w. anonymous photomontage design, 4to.
- Yellowed; partly waterst. Spine dam.; wr. yellowed and frayed. Rather worn copy.
AND 1 other: AMERIKANSKAYA TEKHNIKA I PROMYSHLENNOST'. AMERICAN ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRY. No.9 (New York, 1932, ills., orig. wr., folio).
- Frontwr. foxed along edges. = Global Avantgarde Greece 3 (other issue).
To 3° máti. No.4-6. Ibid., Trito Máti, 1936, 3 issues in 1 vol., no pagination, ills., orig. wr. w. anonymous design, 4to.
- Partly trifle foxed. = Global Avantgarde Greece 15 (other issue).
- Vague horizontal middle fold.
= Rare. Of this periodical 6 issues were published 1920-1921. Le Fonds Paul Destribats 139; Bolliger II 538f, III 212f and IV 389: "(...) einer der seltesten und für die sprachliche Entwicklung der französischen Dadaismus und Surrealismus wichtigsten Zeitschriften." Contains contributions by i.a. Francis Picabia, Louis Aragon, Isadora Duncan, Jean Cocteau and Tristan Tzara.