Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Der Feuerreiter; Blätter für Dichtung / Kritik / Graphik (2. Jahrgang, August 1923), [ORIGINAL ETCHING & LITHOGRAPHS]

Jacob, Heinrich Eduard (editor)

Berlin: Hans Heinrich Tillgner, n/d. Sonderheft (Special edition). Softcover. 4to. 32pp. Printed original wraps protected by modern mylar. Rare special edition of the German periodical Der Feuerreiter, honoring the German artist, poet and printmaker Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966). Meidner's works were part of the Nazi book burning in 1933, being Jewish he fled to England in 1939. Illustrated with an original numbered (63/100) etching (frontispiece) and two original lithographs by Meidner. Etching signed by Meidner in pencil, lithos with artist's initials. Age wear and creasing to wraps. 1 1/2" of backstrip on head of spine missing, tail of spine chipped. Wraps repaired with tape. Wraps almost completely detached. Waterstaining on lower right corner throughout, not affecting text or plates, same corner bumped throughout. Etching almost detached from book block. Top right corner of page 31 repaired with tape. Text in German, Gothic script. Wraps in fair, interior in overall good to very good condition. g. Item #22199

Inhalt (contents): Frauenbildnis, Originalradierung / Nur dies ist das wahre Wort / Von der Armut / Vom rechten Gebrauch irdischer Gabe / Mutter, du mystische Frau / Ludwig Meidner: Kopf, Originallithographie / Oskar Walzel: Der Dichter Ludwig Meidner / Fred von Zollikhofer: An Ludwig Meidner / Hugo Marcus: Drei Begegnungen / Johannes R. becher: An Ludwig Meidner / Willi Wolfradt: Der Maler und Zeichner Ludwig Meidner / Fred von Zollikhofer; Der Verwndelte / Heinrich Eduard Jacob: Notizen zur apokalyptischen Kunstform / Fritz Gottfurcht: Zur Definition des Bühnenraums.

Price: $950.00