MODERNISMS

modernisms
label to upper board, some fading
to margins and edges rubbed with
a touch of wear at corners,
backstrip lacking except for a
couple of inches towards head,
edges untrimmed with a few small
spots, a little spotting to
endpapers also, fair £2,000
The printed label is in the 2nd of the
3 states described by Gallup, with
horizontal rules either side of the
title and author information. The
fragile backstrip is almost entirely
absent here, but the textblock is
sound and the covers secure.
33. Luxemburg (Rosa) Briefe, an Karl und Luise Kautsky (1896-1918).
Herausgegeben von Luise Kautsky. Berlin: E. Laub’sche, 1923, FIRST EDITION,
tissue-guarded frontispiece and 1 further photographic plate with folding
facsimile of letter with illustration at head towards rear, a few faint spots to
prelims, nick to fore-margin of one page and some waterstaining to leading edge
of textblock, pp. 235, [3, ads], crown 8vo, original wrappers with facsimile of
author’s signature in gilt to front, backstrip lettered in white, dustjacket with
chipping at backstrip ends, textblock a little strained following folded plate, good
£80
Letters between prominent Marxist philosophers documenting turbulent times in
Germany and Eastern Europe; the letters are in the main friendly and familiar in tone
and only partly convey the intellectual basis for her politics, which began in accord
with her correspondents until growing differences led to open dispute in 1910. The
majority of letters, particularly after this schism, are to Luise Kautsky.
34. Morand (Paul) Open All Night. Translated
into English by H.B.V. [i.e., Vyvyan Holland]
Chapman and Dodd, 1923, FIRST ENGLISH
EDITION, 266/275 COPIES signed by the author,
title-page printed in black and red, half-title
with vignette and browned, pp. 219, 8vo,
original black buckram, lettered in gilt to
backstrip and upper board, the latter with
central vignette in same, patterned endpapers,
small pen-mark to flyleaf and a few spots to
verso of both free endpapers, edges untrimmed
and toned, very good £100
[With:] Morand (Paul) Closed All Night. Translated by G.P.C, C.B.P., and H.M.
Chapman and Dodd, 1923, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 77/275 COPIES signed by the author,
half-title browned, pp. 222, 8vo, original black buckram, lettered in gilt to backstrip
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