Die Passion Eines Menschen 25 Holzschnitte V. Frans Masereel / Bei Kurt Wolff Muenchen
by Frans Masereel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Spine defective, otherwise a very good copy, text and plates are clean and crisp.
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Munich: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1927.. Spine defective, otherwise a very good copy, text and plates are clean and crisp.. Edition: Second edition., Binding: Original publisher’s paper boards with title and vignette to upper board, spine defective. , Notes: The publisher, Kurt Wolff, was an influential German publisher who was responsible for the skyrocketing success of Franz Kafka’s early career. This book, telling the story of a poor worker fighting for workers’ rights, juxtaposes the humanist sentiment invoked by a young man’s being made to suffer in a capitalist society with the cruel rigidity identified with the traditional family, the factory, the police, and eventually the church and the courts. The motif of a man bearing a cross seen on the cover and the title seems in this context a stark contrast with the crucifix depicted in the trial plate, seeking to identify the young man with Jesus, different from the unjust system identified with the crucifix., Size: Square 8vo. , Illustration: Complete with 25 woodcuts by Frans Masereel, depicting the life struggle of a man born in poverty, arrested as a youth, becoming a construction worker upon leaving prison, and eventually organizing a union for his colleagues, iarrested during a standoff with police, facing trial beneath the blinding light of a crucifix, and left standing before what is presumed to be a firing squad., Pages: Foliation. 1 ff., title, half-title, 25 woodcuts, publisher’s note, advertisements, 1 ff., Category: Book Plate Books General; Book Literature; Book Art, Architecture & Design;
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- Bookseller
- Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B3671
- Title
- Die Passion Eines Menschen 25 Holzschnitte V. Frans Masereel / Bei Kurt Wolff Muenchen
- Author
- Frans Masereel
- Book Condition
- Used - Spine defective, otherwise a very good copy, text and plates are clean and crisp.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Kurt Wolff Verlag
- Place of Publication
- Munich
- Date Published
- 1927.
- Keywords
- Book Plate Books General; Book Literature; Book Art, Architecture & Design;
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- Spine
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- Crisp
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- Poor
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...