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JOSEF LIUTPOLD STERN & OTTO RUDOLF SCHATZ
Die Neve Stadt
£425

Berlin, Verlag Bucherglide Gutenberg, 1927. Unpaginated, 75pp. Poem by Stern on the emerging proletariat, with 11 full-page illustrations by Schatz, both text and illustrations printed from woodblocks by Schatz. Small folio. Illustrated boards.

A fine example of German Expressionist typography, printed at the Buchdruckwerkstatte, Berlin. Each page is uniquely and dramatically composed of woodcut words and images, many with letters of different sizes, creating an agitated and striking graphic effect. Rare.

 

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