Max Bense Eds (13 results)

Square 8vo. (152 x 151 mm). Leaf with title and Wirpsza's translated verse in German on doubled leaves throughout as issued, final leaf verso with note on the translation; printed by Hansjörg Mayer. Original publisher's red and white printed wrappers by Walter Faiglewith flaps, title 'rot' to front cover as part of the design, issue number in black, quote by Ernst Bloch to white rear cover in red. An excellent example of this single issue of 'rot' featuring . Wirpsza's verse, taken from the collections 'Drugi Opor, Czytelnik' (Warsaw, 1965) and 'Przesady' (Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw, 1966) was translated from the Polish by Maria Kurecka (1920 - 1989), the writer and translator of English, French and German (she translated Camus' 'La Peste', Hesse's 'Demian' among wother books) who was also Wirpsza's wife.

Square 8vo. (150 x 150 mm). Leaf with title, verso and following leaves with Seiffert's verse, inner rear wrapper with details of previous issues of 'rot'; printed by Hansjörg Mayer. Original publisher's red and white printed wrappers by Walter Faigle, white canvas spine, title 'rot' to front cover as part of the design, issue number in black, quote by Ernst Bloch to white rear cover in red. An excellent copy of this single issue of 'rot'. Johannes Ernst Seiffert (1925 - 2009) was a German poet, philosopher and teacher. Several of the poems in the present collection were written in Kyoto in 1962.

Square 8vo. (151 x 151 mm). Leaf with title and Schäuffelen's verse throughout on doubled leaves as issued; printed by Hansjörg Mayer. Rear flap with details of previous issues of 'rot'. Original publisher's red and white printed wrappers by Walter Faiglewith flaps, title 'rot' to front cover as part of the design, issue number in black, quote by Ernst Bloch to white rear cover in red. An excellent example of this single issue of 'rot'. This copy has been signed by Konrad Balder Schäuffelen in black ink to the title page.

Square 8vo. (151 x 151 mm). Leaf with title and Ponge's text in German translated from the French by Elisabeth Walther printed on doubled leaves throughout as issued, final leaves with Walther's 'nachwort'; printed by Hansjörg Mayer. Original publisher's red and white printed wrappers by Walter Faiglewith flaps, title 'rot' to front cover as part of the design, issue number in black, quote by Ernst Bloch to white rear cover in red. This scarce single issue of 'rot' features the work of French theoretician and poet Francis Ponge. This copy is signed by the editor Elisabeth Walther to the title page. Walther also translated Ponge's text (it is excerpted from his 'Pour un Malherbe', Editions Gallimard, 1965) and provided the afterword for this issue of 'rot'.

Square 8vo. (150 x 152 mm). Leaf with title and Bense's analysis of aesthetics printed on doubled leaves as issued throughout, final leaf with bibliography; printed by Hansjörg Mayer. Original publisher's red and white printed wrappers by Walter Faigle, white canvas spine, title 'rot' to front cover as part of the design, issue number in black, quote by Ernst Bloch to white rear cover in red. A scarce single issue of 'rot' devoted to editor Max Bense's own theories of aesthetics. This issue is signed by Max Bense in blue ink to the title page.

Square 8vo. (160 x 151 mm). Leaf with title and printed typographic text throughout on doubled leaves as issued; printed by Hansjörg Mayer. Original publisher's red and white printed wrappers by Walter Faigle with flaps, title 'rot' to front cover as part of the design, issue number in black, quote by Ernst Bloch to white rear cover in red. An excellent copy of this single issue of 'rot', a compendium of concrete poetry. This copy has been signed by Ernst Jandl in blue ink to the reverse of the title page. Also included, inserted loose, is a leaf with details of previous numbers of the review (nos. 1 - 13) and their contributors and contents. 'rot ist eine reihe von heften, in denen experimentelle und tendenziose texte publiziert werden.' (from the.

Square 8vo. (160 x 150 mm). Leaf with title and de Melo Noto's verse, afterword by Haroldo do Campos, all on doubled leaves as issued; printed by Hansjörg Mayer. Original publisher's red and white printed wrappers by Walter Faigle with flaps, title 'rot' to front cover as part of the design, issue number in black, quote by Ernst Bloch to white rear cover in red. This single issue of 'rot', a compendium of concrete poetry, is devoted to the work of João Cabral de Melo Neto. Published originally in Portuguese as 'O Cão Sem Plumas' (The Dog Without Feathers), the text was translated by Willy Keller. João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920 - 1999) was a Brazilian poet as well as a diplomat.

Square 8vo. (154 x 152 mm). Leaf with title and de Campos' text translated into German by Vilem Flusser and Anatol Rosenfeld on doubled leaves throughout; printed by Hansjörg Mayer. Original publisher's red and white printed wrappers by Walter Faiglewith flaps, title 'rot' to front cover as part of the design, issue number in black, quote by Ernst Bloch to white rear cover in red. This single issue of 'rot', a compendium of concrete and experimental poetry, is devoted to the work of Haroldo de Campos. de Campos' Portuguese verse was translated by Vilem Flusser and Anatol Rosenfeld. His collection 'Galáxias' - elements of it are presented here - was not published in its entirety until 1984.

Square 8vo. (151 x 151 mm). Leaf with title, leaf with further title and Mon's verse on doubled leaves as issued; printed by Hansjörg Mayer. Rear inner wrapper with details of previous issues of 'rot' as well as details of several in preparation. Original publisher's red and white printed wrappers by Walter Faiglewith flaps, title 'rot' to front cover as part of the design, issue number in black, quote by Ernst Bloch to white rear cover in red. This single issue of 'rot', a compendium of experimental and visual poetry, is devoted to Franz Mon. This copy signed by Mon in pencil to the title.

Square 8vo. (151 x 151 mm). Leaf with title, Perice's text translated from the American [sic] by Elisabeth Walther and with her afterword and notes; printed by Hansjörg Mayer. Original publisher's red and white printed wrappers by Walter Faigle with flaps, title 'rot' to front cover as part of the design, issue number in black, quote by Ernst Bloch to white rear cover in red. An excellent copy of this single issue of 'rot', a compendium of concrete poetry. This copy has been signed by Max Bense in blue ink to the reverse of the title page. Charles Sanders Peirce, the father of modern semiotics, was of particular interest to Elisabeth Walther who devoted three issues of 'rot' to him.

Square 8vo. (162 x 148 mm). Leaf with title and Bense's text on doubled leaves as issued with examples of visual poetry by various poets; printed by Hansjörg Mayer. Original publisher's red and white printed wrappers by Walter Faigle with flaps, title 'rot' to front cover as part of the design, issue number in black, quote by Ernst Bloch to white rear cover in red. Max Bill's copy, presented by Max Bense. Bense's presentation is in black ink to the front flap: 'für Mr. Bill / M. Bense'. The poets included are: Helmut Heissenbüttel, Arno Holz, Gertrude Stein, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arno Schmidt, Bense himself, José Lino Grünewald and Fernando Pessoa. Also included, inserted loose, is a leaf with details of previous numbers of the review (nos. 1 - 13) and their contributors and contents.

Softcover. Condition: Good to fine condition. First edition. Inscribed "Für Amalie Max Bill 13-5-67" underneath a b/w photograph of Max Bill on inside front cover. Octavo. 48 (4)pp. Original illustrated glossy wraps with black lettering on spine, protected by modern mylar. Exhibition catalog for the first major retrospective exhibition at the "Galerie im Erker" in St. Gallen from April 8 to May 27, 1967. The catalog opens with twenty-eight pages of an illustrated history of Max Bill's work and biographical data, starting with an b/w photograph of an electrical samovar made of brass in 1925 up to his participation in the exhibition "dix ans d'art vivant 1955-65" at the Fondation Maeght St. Paul in 1967. Illustrations are printed to glossy paper. Asides of the thumbnail b/w photographs of Max Bill's work at front the catalog contains twelve full page photographs of Bill's work, two of them in color, and contributions on Bill and his work by Will Grohmann, Max Bense on 'aspects of Hegel in an exhibition of Max Bill' and a contribution by Bill himself, a transcript of Bill's answer to the question 'how will art look like in the year 2000?' spoken for the radio and television department of the Swiss State Exhibition in Lausanne in 1964. The typography of the catalog was design by Max Bill. Text in German. Wraps with light foxing and lightly rubbed. Interior in fine condition.

Condition: Very Good. 150 x 150 mm. Invisible bound. Red, black and white printed wraps. This issue by the important Brazilian graphic designer contains Aloisio Magalhaes's playful photographic images (b&w) of a diamond symbol in varying forms and contexts, from a kite to a woman's swimsuit. Condition: near fine.