Entwurf einer Landschaft [Sketch of a Landscape] Édition de la Galerie Simon Paris 1930 | 19 x 25 cm | full calf
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. 
