Weber, Max. Primitives. Poems and Woodcuts. New York, Spiral Press, 1926. 36 pages with 11 illustrations after woodcuts and a loose doublepage (introduction), not signed. Original illustrated cardboard. The English hand made paper has some foxing and the margins are browned, but the illustrations are clean.

„A volume of Poems and eleven (original) Woodcuts by Max Weber, together with an Introduction by Benjamin de Casseres. This is the first book made and published by the SPIRAL PRESS…. bound in paper boards printed from a woodcut design in two colours.

This is a not numbered and unsigned copy of 350 copies in total.

Records of other colleagues and experts mention, that the woodcuts are relief prints form copperplates taken from the original woodcut blocks.
Max Weber has been internationally identified with the modern art movement of the United States.
This copy has the enclosed invitation text for the book and press.

The illustrations resemble the German Expressionism.

• Kategorie: Illustrierte Bücher – illustrated books
• Sprache: English
• Erstausgabe
• Bestellnummer: 19086CB

Preis: EUR 450,--