Kurt Schwitters: a Portrait from Life, with Collision, a Science-fiction Opera Libretto in Banalities, by Kurt Schwitters & Kate Trauman Steinitz, & Other Writings

Kate Trauman Steinitz (text); Robert Bartlett Hass (translations); John Coplans & Walter Hopps (introduction)

Published by Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968

About this Item

Inscribed & signed by Kate Trauman Steinitz on the title page. This octavo volume in dust jacket contains the entire libretto of Collisions. Included with this book is a small archive of additional material: a picture postcard from Steinitz with a long message to the original owner of this book; several newspaper articles including a couple obituaries of the author, two copies of a memorial of her by noted Los Angeles bookseller, Jake Zeitlin; an article clipped from a 1985 issue of Time Magazine by Robert Hughes; some correspondence from Steinitz to the book's owner and several other printed items relating to Schwitters and Steinitz's work. The book contains B&W illustrations. Condition: minor wear & age-darkening to the DJ which also has slight nicking to its edges; else a near fine copy in very good DJ. Pages: xxviii, 221.

Seller Inventory # 9773

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kurt Schwitters: a Portrait from Life, with Collision, a Science-fiction Opera Libretto in Banalities, by Kurt Schwitters & Kate Trauman Steinitz, & Other Writings
• Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)