Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

Almanach auf das Jahr 1920 [WITH 2 ORIGINAL GRAPHICS]

Gurlitt, Fritz (Editor)

Berlin: Verlag Fritz Gurlitt, 1920. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 216, xxii pp., 33 plates, incl. frontispiece. Original illustrated stiff wraps with Cesar Klein illustration in color on covers and spine, protected by modern mylar. Frontispiece original b/w lithograph by Lovis Corinth. Title pages with black double framing and publisher's device, printed in red and black. Four page calendar with red framing and four drawings by Max Pechstein on facing pages, rendered lithographically. In addition, the Almanach contains original lithographs by various artists, in text and full page, and an original woodcut by Max Pechstein, facing page 192. Includes twenty-two pages of Gurlitt publisher's books, graphics and art plates.

This magnificent edition contains contributions by Alfred Polgar, Lovis Corinth, Herbert Eulenberg, J. Meier-Graefe, Max von Boehn, Novalis, Oskar Kokoschka and others, and numerous b/w reproductions of line etchings by Max Pechstein, Edvard Munch, Lovis Corinth, Otto Müller, Willi Geiger, Lesser Ury, Heinrich Zille, Erich Heckel, Constantin Somow, Oskar Kokoschka, reproduced lithographically and offset reproductions of works by Hans Thoma, Ferdinand Hodler, Lovis Corinth, Max Slevogt, César Klein, Richard Seewald, Wilhelm Wagner, Willi Geiger and many others. Twenty-two pages of publisher's advertisements, two illustrated, at rear. Laid in a double page of printed publisher's advertisements. Text in German. Light wear along edges of binding with minor chipping at head and tail of spine. Overall in very good, artwork in fine condition. Very good to fine condition. Item #55120

Price: $450.00