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ONE OF ONLY 350 COPIES SIGNED BY MAX WEBER

Max Weber: Primitives, first edition, signed by Weber

WEBER, MAX.  Primitives: Poems and Woodcuts

“Primitives is Weber’s second book of poetry (in 1914 he had published ‘Cubist Poems’, un-illustrated, in London). Many years earlier he had first become interested in primitive art, to which the title and the style of the woodcuts both testify. This little-known book is one of the very few American ‘livres de peintres’ published as early as the 1920s.” -The Artist and the Book, 1860-1960, #321.

FIRST EDITION, one of only 350 numbered copies, SIGNED BY WEBER; the first book by the famous Spiral Press (founded by Joseph Blumenthal and A. George Hoffman). Introduction by Benjamin de Casseres. With eleven woodcuts by Weber; text printed in Pen Print Bold on hand-made English paper. In the original modernist binding after a design by Weber.

New York: Spiral Press, 1926. Octavo, original decorative paper boards; without original slipcase (as usual);  custom cloth box. Tasteful bookplate of Margaret Winkelman at upper left of front pastedown. Minor wear at head of spine; otherwise fine.  A beautiful copy of a rare and fragile book. $2300.

Science/Technology/Medicine

Literature/Modern Firsts

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