"Sealed for sanitary reasons"
Die Silbergäule. Die Kathedrale.
8vo (144 x 224 mm). 8 ff. With 8 original lithographs (including the wrappers). Illustrated original wrappers, including the sealing strip.
€ 9,500.00
Only edition of one of the most important Dada publications, an early work containing some of Schwitters' finest and most original illustrations of the 1920s. With the wrapper title "Merz 8". This specimen includes the rare sealing strip, Schwitters' riposte for having been ostracized by the Berlin Dada Circle, who refused to admit him to the First International Dada Fair. The front is lithographed: "Sealed for sanitary reasons. Caution: Anti-dada"; the back reads: "Unsealed copies are to be rejected. K. S. Merz. 1920." The seal is broken (as in all known copies).
From an Austrian private collection.
Slightly browned; occasional insignificant stains.
Die Silbergäule 41/42. Schmalenbach/Bolliger VII, 251. Motherwell/Karpel 278. Verkauf 182. Meyer 85. Raabe 163. The Artist and the Book 278. Die Zwanziger Jahre in Berlin 3/268.
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