Carl EINSTEIN

First edition, 15 issues in 15 separate installments, abundantly illustrated with black and white photographs. Complete with the special issue "Hommage à Picasso" (No. 3, 1930) and the index for the year 1929, published as a separate 8-page stapled booklet.

Presented in a custom slipcase with a flat spine in blue morocco, title stamped in palladium and spine framed in palladium, decorative blue paper boards, sky-blue suede doublures; a handsome ensemble signed Boichot.

Some spines slightly faded not affecting the text, occasional minor foxing along the margins of certain covers. 

Complete series of this legendary and non-conformist magazine founded by Georges Bataille, which gave voice to "fields of art and knowledge unrecognized by official culture or considered controversial: popular literature, jazz, cabaret, advertising, everyday life" (Annie Pirabot), along with so-called primitive art and objects.

First edition of this issue of this important journal dealing notably with archaeology, fine arts and ethnography and whose principal editors were Georges Bataille and Carl Einstein.
A small tear at the foot of the spine, a slight tear without loss at the foot of pages 21-22.
Contributions by Heinrich Ehl: "L'heure de naissance de l'art européen occidental", Georges Bataille "La mutilation sacrificielle et l'oreille coupée de Vincent Van Gogh", Michel Leiris: "Le "caput mortuum" ou la femme de l'alchimiste", Jean Bourdeillette: "Franz Xaver Messerschmidt", Zdenko Reich: "Le massacre des porcs", Carl Einstein: "L'enfance néoloithique (Hans Arp)", Jacques Prévert, Maurice Leenhardt.
Issue illustrated with photographs by Jacques-André Boiffard.

First edition of this issue of this important review dealing notably with archaeology, fine arts and ethnography and having Georges Bataille and Carl Einstein as its principal driving forces.
A very small tear at the lower left corner of the first cover, light dampstain at head and foot of the leaves.
Contributions by Leo Frobenius: "Dessins rupestres du sud de la Rhodésie", Carl Einstein: "Léger : oeuvres récentes", Georges Bataille "Les pieds nickelés", Robert Desnos: "La ligne générale", Henry-Charles Puech: "Les prisons de Jean-Baptiste Piranèse", Michel Leiris, Georges Ribemont-Desaignes, Docteur Pudelko...

First edition of this issue of the important journal dealing notably with archaeology, fine arts and ethnography with Georges Bataille and Carl Einstein as principal editors.
Very handsome copy.
Contributions by Heinrich Ehl: "L'heure de naissance de l'art européen occidental", Georges Bataille "La mutilation sacrificielle et l'oreille coupée de Vincent Van Gogh", Michel Leiris: "Le "caput mortuum" ou la femme de l'alchimiste", Jean Bourdeillette: "Franz Xaver Messerschmidt", Zdenko Reich: "Le massacre des porcs", Carl Einstein: "L'enfance néoloithique (Hans Arp)", Jacques Prévert, Maurice Leenhardt.
Issue illustrated with photographs by Jacques-André Boiffard

Entwurf einer Landschaft [Sketch of a Landscape]
First edition, one of 90 numbered copies on Holland paper signed by Carl Einstein and Gaston-Louis Roux on the justification page, the only issue with 10 copies on Japan paper and 10 on Chapelle paper.

With five full page black lithographs by Gaston-Louis Roux, one of which on the frontispiece.

Binding in full brown-pink box, spine with blue, pink and green title in œser, significant inlaid decoration on the boards, four bands of five strips of pink, purple, green and blue calf, arranged around a central piece of rectangular multi-colored marbled box, endpapers in flesh-side pink suede, wrappers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, dust jacket in half brown-pink box, spine with blue, pink and green title in œser, slip case lined with brown-pink box, binding signed by Georges Leroux and dated 1994.
Carl Einstein is an anarchist writer, art historian, friend of George Grosz, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, collaborator of Jean Renoir, lived through the wars and revolutions that shook Europe during the first part of the twentieth century. He volunteer during the Spanish civil revolution in 1936 and went to Barcelona to fight in the ranks of the Confédération nationale du tra
vail (National Labor Confederation), before joining the Groupe international de la Colonne Durruti (Durruti Column International Group). Of Jewish faith, he committed suicide in 1940 to avoid failing into the hands of the Nazis.

Magnificent copy perfectly set in a full inlaid box binding signed by Georges Leroux, one of the greatest binders of the second part of the 20th century.