first edition Hardcover
1959 · Dresden
by MAYER, Rudolf
Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1959. Hardcover. Fine. Large portfolio box (12 ½" x 16"). Quarter cloth and printed paper over boards with cardboard sides. The sides are partially split and torn at the corners and spine ends, thus about very good. The portfolio contains a stapled 12pp. letterpress catalog (with the text printed in German, Russian, English and French); and 48 loose black & white and color prints (11 ¾" x 15 ½"), reproducing artworks exhibited at the International Book Arts Exhibition in Dresden in 1959, all in fine condition. The prints are numbered 1-48 on the versos, and each print also has the title of the artwork printed on the verso. (truncated)