Gropius, Walter, and Emil Lange

Das Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar, 1919-1923.

Weimar-Munchen: Bauhausverlag, 1923.

Squarish quarto, 226 pages. 20 color plates, and 147 halftone illustrations. FIRST & ONLY EDITION of the famous Bauhaus manifesto, issued in 2,000 copies, on occasion of the Bauhaus exhibition in August and September 1923. The coloured plates include nine original lithographs by Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, L. Hirschfeld-Mack (2), R. Paris, P. Keler and W. Molar, K. Schmidt (2), and F. Schleifer. The texts are by Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, and Oskar Schlemmer. Tiny abrasions to the corners at the head of spine, otherwise unfaded and fine throughout. Rare.

Price: $8,500.00